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By Jerome Clark
THE MYSTERY OF S-4
For the past two years or so,
Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randl e
of the J. Allen Hynek Center for
UFO Studies have been engaged
in a reinvestigation of the Ros-
well incident, the reported crash
of a UFO i n Linc ol n Co unty, New
Mexico, in July 1947. As of Feb-
ruary of this year, they had inter¬
viewed over 170 persons directly
or indirectly involved
with the event, which is
emerging as perhaps the
central event in the early
history of the UFO phe¬
nomenon. From it there
followed, it appears, the
greatest cover-up of the
century. Schmitt and
Randle's book on the
case (titled simply Roswell) will be
published late this year.
For most of UFO history, sto¬
ries of crashed discs were reject¬
ed by serious ufologists, me
among them, for one good rea¬
son: there was no evidence to
support them. Although crash
tales had circulated since the late
1940s—in other words from the
beginning of the UFO age—some
( most notoriously the Azte c,
New Mexico, crash hoax chroni¬
cled in Frank Scully's 1950 best¬
seller Behind the Flying Saucers )
were exposed as fraudulent.
Others were "friend-of-a-friend"
types of yarns (known to folk¬
lorists as "foaftales"). A minority
involved alleged first-person tes¬
timony, but even when the
informants seemed sin¬
cere (not always the case),
there was no way to ver¬
ify so fantastic an asser¬
tion. Investigators need
more than one source for
stories of this kind.
All this changed in the
late 1970s when William
L. Moore and Stanton T.
Friedman focused on one case
which seemed investigatable. In
1980 Moore, with Charles Berlitz,
wrote a not-very-good book
based on the preliminary investi¬
gation, The Roswell Incident.
Fortunately, Moore and Friedman
continued their investigation
over the next years and by 1985
were presenting a solid case to
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the UFO community. Schmitt and
Randle's further work has con¬
siderably strengthened that case.
Yet the appearance in ufology
of a credible, powerfully-docu¬
mented crash/retrieval case did
not end the rumors, speculations,
foaftales and outright hoaxes
about these matters. Some of the
yarns had official sponsorship
(see my last three articles in this
column). Others may have had
some factual basis but had no
independent confirmation. Others
represented human beings' in¬
nate (and essentially innocent)
need to invent and spread tales
for no other reason than they are
wondrous or scary. Some were
out-and-out fiction, invented by
con artists seeking to extract
money from gullible souls.
AFTER ROSWELL
Much of the current specula¬
tion, folklore, fantasy and con¬
spiracy theorizing centers on the
question of what happened after
the Roswell incident. Little of it
has the informed good sense of
physicist Bruce Maccabee's 198 3
paper Revised UFO HistoryT a
well-reasoned piece, by a ma n
professionally familiar with clas-
sification procedures, on how
official agencies would have han¬
dled the Roswell material. Except
for its premise (that the govern¬
ment possesses the remains of an
extraterrestrial vehicle), Macca-
20 FATE/June 1990
UFO REPORTER
bee's treatment is unsensational
and matter-of-fact. His is proba¬
bly the only such speculation that
does not insult one's intelligence.
The problem is that very little
direct evidence of the hidden his¬
tory has surfaced. So far we can
see clearly only where it began,
on the Mac Brazel ranch in New
Mexico, but we have practically
no idea where it went from there.
MJ-12
A disputed document, almost
certainly a forg eiyrpurpbrts ~fdT?e
a briefing paper prepared by a
supersecret organization called
"Majestic-12," consisting of top
government scientists and mili¬
tary officers who oversaw re¬
search on wreckage and bodies
from the Roswell incident and
another crash in 1950. Logic tells
us that, if UFO spacecraft have
crashed and been kept secret all
this time, some such project,
whether designated MJ-12 or
something else, was certain to
have been put into operation.
One of the principal concerns, of
course, would be to unlock the
secrets of extraterrestrial technol¬
ogy-
THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51
On November 11 and 13,1989,
KLAS-TV, the ABC affiliate in U s
Vegas, Nevada, carried an aston¬
ishing story on its evening news
show, the result of a 1 1/2-year
invest igation by reporter Georg e
Knapp . The subject was one
Robert Lazar, ident ified as a
physicist who worked at a high¬
ly-classified government labora¬
tory where the U.S. government
is studying interplanetary hard¬
ware.
Lazar claimed to have been
employed at Area 51, situated in
a corner of the Nevada Test Site,
a remote location ringed by the
Groom Mountains and desert
expanses. For several decades
some of the most sensitive mili¬
tary and intelligence research
and development have been
going on there. The U-2 and SR-
71 spy planes were tested at the
site. Other projects which have
emerged from Area 51 are the
Stealth and Strategic Defense
Initiative ("Star Wars") technolo¬
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on there is literally out of this
world. Much of the speculatio n
has been sparked by persisten t
reports of unusual lights see n
maneuvering over the are a-
lights that have flown at great
speeds, then stopped suddenly
and hovered before accelerating
again, behaving, in other words,
in ways that seem impossible for
conventional aircraft.
As the story goes, Lazar was
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Navy wanted him to work on
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contents amazed him; they de¬
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advance of anything convention¬
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" The power source is an anti ¬
matter reactor," he told Knapp.
" They run gravity~amplifie rs.
There is [sic] actually two parts
to the drive mechanism. It's a
bizarre technology. There is [sic]
no physical hookups between
any of the systems in there. They
use gravity as a wave, using wa ve
guides that look like microwa ves."
The walls of the work areas
displayed posters showing a disc
ascending from the ground; the
caption read, "They're here." In
due course Lazar was taken into
a hangar where he saw a disc.
Although he was instructed to
walk by the vehicle and not look
directly at it, he touched it briefly
as he passed it. Later he saw the
object in flight and was also
allowed to view eight other craft
in connecting hangars separated
by large bay doors. Each had a
distinctive appearance but all
were disc-shaped. One looked
brand new, but another had a
large hole in the bottom and a
corresponding one at the top,
leading him to speculate that a
missile or anti-aircraft projectile
had pierced it.
His superiors told him nothing
22 FATE/June 1990
UFO REPORTER
about the nature of these craft or
the circumstances of their recov¬
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looked inside one, he saw "it had
really small chairs," as if its pilots
were of shorter-than-human
stature. That caused things, he
said, "to click together just all too
fast." After observing the discs in
the air, he was convinced that no
terrestrial technology could have
accomplished what he was see¬
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for him was his discovery that an
element unknown to earthly sci¬
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role in~the development of the
g ravity-harnessing technology .
Five hundred pounds of it i s
stored in lead casings . It would
be, he said, "impossible to syn¬
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here on earth...The substance has
to come from a place where
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They would even come to his
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Reporter Knapp interviewed
Lazar's neighbor, a real-estate
appraiser name d Gene Huff, to
whom Lazar had confided "his
story before going public with it.
Huff said that over two consecu¬
tive weekends he, Lazar and sev¬
eral others had filmed a fast-
moving, glowing object which
rose up from the Groom Moun¬
tains and executed aerial acrobat¬
ics for a period of time. The
resulting videotape was ru n in
the course of Knapp's account.
Knapp said he had found oth¬
ers who knew about the extraor¬
dinary projects at S-4. It is, he
said, "common knowledge among
those with high-security clear¬
ances that recovered alien discs
are stored at the Nevada Test
Site," according to an individual
whom Knapp identified as a
"technician in a highly sensitive
position." Claims of sightings of
discs on the ground or in the air
just above the site were made by
a "Las Vegas professional who
once served in the military and
was stationed at the test site," by
a "man who once worked at
Groom Lake as a technician," and
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28 FATE/June 1990
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ing to make me look nonexis¬
tent."
During his investigation,
Knapp had Lazar undergo a
series of polygraph exami na¬
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The first examiner gave him two
tests; Lazar passed one and
flunked the other. Another exam¬
iner gave him four tests and
declared him truthful. A third
examiner studied the charts of
the previous tests and endorsed
the second examiner's conclu¬
sions. A fourth disagreed, saying
it appeared to him that Lazar was
reporting something he had
heard, not something he had wit¬
nessed directly. The second ex¬
aminer opined that the ambigui¬
ties in the test results had to do
not with the subject's dishonesty
but with his acute anxiety about
testifying to sensitive national-
security, and possibly even life-
threatening, matters. Knapp told
his audience, "The polygra-
phers...decided they would not
issue a final statement on truth¬
fulness until more specific testing
can be conducted. And that's
where it stands."
Lazar also underwent hypno¬
sis. The hypnotist, Layne Keck,
was told only that Lazar wanted
help in recalling the contents of
papers, contents unspecified, he
had seen. While hypnotized
Lazar began speaking of pictures
of "desks," or so Keck heard him
30 FATE/June 1990
saying; soon, though, he realized
"it was discs that he was refer¬
ring to. And at that moment I
realized we were into some¬
thing...pretty heavy." Keck, who
often works with the police, con¬
cluded Lazar was telling the
truth as he knew it.
THE WORK GOES ON
Both journalists and ufologists
are pursuing the investigation.
One UFO in vestigator. Gran t
Cameron, tells me that so far the
evidence suggests there is a "50-
50 chance" the story is true. One
point in Lazar's favor is that he
has sought neither money nor
additional publicity, and quite
early in the game separated him¬
self from individuals who tried
to exploit him or get him to
endorse their own cover-up fan¬
tasies. Knapp's own investiga¬
tion, as reported on KLAS'
evening news show, convinced
him that Lazar is on the level. But
the rest of us would be advised
to be very, very cautious. One of
life's lessons is that if something
s ounds too good to be tru e,
t here's a reason for it: i t is.
OO
WHO'S SILLY NOW?
It happens every June. Just as
the spring thaw is finally reach¬
ing Scandinavia and the far
north, someone plodding through
the slush around one of the fjords
of Sweden or Norway suddenly
sees a fountain of bubbles and
watches in amazement as a huge
grey submarine roars to the sur¬
face of the icy waters.
The alarm goes out. The
phantom submarines are
back!
For generations, dat¬
ing all the way back to
the early 1920s, mysteri¬
ous submarines have
been appearing annually
in the remote and inhos¬
pitable waterways of northern
Scandinavia where few ships of
any kind ever venture. And for
generations the navies of several
countries have tried in vain to
trap them.
In the 1930s, the authorities
grumbled that the subs might
belong to "liquor smugglers."
The Nazis got the blame in the
1940s. There were even rumors
that the Germans were building
elaborate underwater bases in
the fjords of Norway during
World War II.
In the '60s and '70s, the Soviets
were accused of sending their
subs into the fjords for no appar¬
ent purpose. In 1972, the Nor¬
wegian government was nearly
toppled by a major scan¬
dal when their navy had
one of the subs cornered
and it got away. Depth
charges and the usual
anti-submarine tactics
fail in these cases. All
sonar, radar, radio and
other electrical equip¬
ment failed simultane¬
ously on all the Norwegian naval
vessels in the '72 incident, en¬
abling the sub—or whatever it
was—to escape.
A few years ago, a Soviet sub¬
marine actually ran aground on
Swedish turf and the angry
Swedish government broke all
diplomatic ties with the Soviet
Union. But the episode did not
John Keel
31
end the mystery. The phantom
subs still appear every June, just
as they have been doing for 70
years, not only in Scandinavia
but also in South America,
Australia and a hundred other
places. Forteans even have a
name for them: USOs (unidenti¬
fied submarine objects).
THE SILLY SEASON
In the days when newspapers
were everyone's main source of
information, hardboiled journal¬
ists referred to the summer
months as "the silly season." It
was a time for bathing beauty
contests, reports of phantom subs,
sea serpents, and human interest
stories that were ignored in the
busier news periods. Today the
silly season still generates silli¬
ness in the form of statements by
politicians, dithering bureaucrats
and almost mindless campaigns
whipped up by TV news depart¬
ments trying to stimulate higher
ratings with endless stories about
menacing diseases, sexual weird¬
ness and garbage-strewn beach¬
es. Sewer journalism has replaced
the "yellow" journalism of old.
Crackpotism has become the
national pastime and the silly
season lasts all year long.
SOLSTICE STRANGENESS
Late in June, the Sun does the
flip-flop that we know as the
Summer Solstice. It pauses briefly
32 FATE/June 1990
in its wanderings across the sky
around the 21st-24th of June and
more strange things begin to
happen. Even in very ancient
times, people recognized the
Summer Solstice as a very special
time. The earliest religions made
it an important festival day.
Elaborate monuments and struc¬
tures were built in such*a way
that the rising Sun would peep
through carefully designed aper¬
tures only on the day of the sol¬
stice. Even today millions of peo¬
ple observe the solstice with so-
called "Pagan" rituals and feasts.
June 24th also marks the birth
of ufology. On June 24th, 1947,
Kenneth Arnold saw a group of
strange objects whizzing around
the mountains of Washington
state and his report kicked off the
first big flying saucer craze. The
Summer Solstice has frequently
produced a wave of saucer sight¬
ings ever since. Some think those
saucers are somehow whipped
.up by all of those praying Pagans.
MISSING MINDS
Every June the phantom sub¬
marines come out of hiding and
while our navies are chasing
USOs, the UFOs pop in for a
visit. Then, as the thermometer
rises, people begin to see large
dark forms swimming around in
Loch Ness, Lake Champlain,
Chesapeake Bay and several
other fresh water lakes in China,
BEYOND THE KNOWN
Siberia, Canada, etc. The monster
mating season is in full swing! The
politicians polish their tongues
and the silly season is well under¬
way.
AMNESIA IN
JULY
In July, anoth¬
er annual epi¬
demic begins.
This one is even
more bizarre than
all those USOs
and UFOs, but it
takes place very
quietly and not
even the FBI
tries to catalog it.
In police stations
and hospitals all
over the country,
confused citizens
appear and ask
for help. They cannot remember
who they are or where they are
from. They are victims of amne¬
sia. Some of them eventually
regain their identity and return to
their homes. Others are not so
lucky and have to construct a
whole new life for themselves.
They seem to come from all walks
of life, span all age groups and
are relatively normal except fpr
the fact that their pasts have
somehow been obliterated. Some
prove to have come from places
very far—thousands of miles
away—from where they sudden¬
ly find themselves. They may
have been missing from their
homes for months—sometimes
even for years—before they final¬
ly surfaced.
Back in the 1920s, author
Charles Fort noted a few cases of
this phenomenon, just as he
observed that people with certain
specific names seemed to be dis¬
appearing. "Someone is collect¬
ing Ambroses," he suggested.
Actually, during these annual
amnesia waves there do seem to
be odd correlations in the names.
One year the name Maddox
turned up in several cases. In
another year (1969), Hill was the
name of several scattered amne-
It would take heavy machinery
like tractors to do this kind of
damage. The police usually try
to blame the usual imaginary
bands of restless teenagers
despite the dearth of footprints*
tire tracks or other tangible
evidence. In case after case, as
many as 100 tombstones have
been flattened in a single night.
June 1990/FATE 33
sia victims.
Of course, some of these inci¬
dents prove to have a very logical
explanation. The victim banged
his or her head, lost his memory
and wandered off. There was
nothing too unusual or supernat¬
ural about it. But other cases defy
logical explanations.
And why do so many of these
amnesia victims surface in the
month of July? That's the real
puzzle. Is somebody out there
still collecting Ambroses—and
Hills and Maddoxes?
PHANTOM VANDALS
Another summertime mystery
that attracts very little notice is
the cemetery vandalism that baf¬
fles local police everywhere.
Large, heavy tombstones are
found knocked over in neat rows.
Many are reinforced with thick
steel rods which have been bro¬
ken off like toothpicks. It would
take heavy machinery like trac¬
tors to do this kind of damage.
The police usually try to blame
the usual imaginary bands of
restless teenagers despite the
dearth of footprints, tire tracks or
other tangible evidence. In case
after case, as many as 100 tomb¬
stones have been flattened in a
single night. The local police
never realize that the same thing
has happened in scores of other
cemeteries around the country.
No teenager has ever been
caught attacking tombstones.
Real vandalism, which happens
only rarely, usually consists of
writing obscenities or racist
remarks on the headstones in
ethnic cemeteries.
These are just some of the
many unusual events that go
largely unnoticed every summer.
It is possible, even probable, that
your local newspaper will be
mentioning some of them in the
weeks ahead. If so, there are two
national organizations that
would like to receive copies of
your clippings (in addition to the
columnists here at FATE, of
course). They are: The Society for
the Investigation of the Unex¬
plained, P.O. Box 265P, Little
Silver, N.J. 07739-0265, and The
International Fortean Organi¬
zation, P.O. Box 367E, Arlington,
Va. 22210-0367.
By the end of August, things
should quiet down. Then watch
out for September. About 800
people are killed every year by
lightning and, for some peculiar
reason, many of these deaths
occur in the month of September.
It often happens in open fields
like golf courses, tennis courts
a»d baseball diamonds. Those
who aren't killed outright when
they get zapped lose their memo¬
ries.
OO
34 FATE/June 1990
ON THE
PSYCHIC FRONTIER
By D. Scott Rogo
ARE ALL TYPES OF PSY
FORMS OF ONE THING?
Some years ago, I was em¬
ployed by a small parapsycholo¬
gy laboratory in Durham, North
Carolina. Computer technology
was rapidly developing and a
second laboratory in the city had
purchased a set-up for $100,000.
(It took up an entire wall but
didn't possess the capa¬
bilities of a modem per¬
sonal computer.) My
superior was fascinated
with computer technolo¬
gy and the promise it
held for parapsychology.
He explained that per¬
haps some day we could
feed the details of hun¬
dreds of ESP experiments into
computer banks. The computer
could then scan through to dis¬
cover the specific factors that led
to the success of the best experi¬
ments.
That conversation took place
close to 20 years ago, but the real¬
ization of the dream is upon us
now. Here is what computer tech¬
nology is contributing to the exper¬
imental study of precognition.
PRECOGNITION
As I wrote in my December
1989 column, significant labora¬
tory evidence has been collected
"proving" the existence of pre¬
cognition. To some extent people
can "see" into the future.
But there is an aspect
of precognition I didn't
discuss in that column:
The phenomenon really
doesn't work terribly
well when it is compared
to other forms of psi.
For years, parapsychol¬
ogists have believed that
psi—telepathy, clairvoy¬
ance and precognition—repre¬
sents some sort of uniform phe¬
nomenon. This was the view¬
point of J.B. Rhine, who felt that
there was little difference in the
"power" some people use to look
into a person's mind, into a
sealed box or into the future. Psi
might be conceptualized as a gun
being fired in different directions.
D. Scott Rogo
This concept seemed logical
enough, since several of the early
Duke University "gifted" sub¬
jects could readily exhibit telepa¬
thy, clairvoyance or precognition
when challenged with the task.
But there is growing evidence
that this viewpoint could be mis¬
taken. Perhaps different forms of
psi rely upon separate mental
processes.
THE WORK OF
CHARLES TART
This possibility was first
demonstrated by Dr. Charles
Tart, a psychologist at the Uni¬
versity of California, Davis. In
the early 1980s, he noticed that
throughout the early years of ESP
testing, some exceptional labora¬
tory subjects had scored remark¬
ably well using standard ESP
cards. Sometimes they correctly
guessed the geometrical shapes
printed on 18 or even 25 cards in
a row (by chance a person should
only guess 5 per run of 25 cards).
But nothing comparable was ever
reported in the experimental lit¬
erature on precognition—i.e.,
experiments in which the sub¬
jects were requested to guess the
order of the cards before they
were even shuffled.
This discovery led Dr. Tart to
compare the success rates of real¬
time ESP (experiments exploring
clairvoyance and telepathy) with
precognition experiments. He
36 FATE/June 1990
scoured parapsychology's experi¬
mental literature and chose the
best real-time experiments (53
studies) and the best precognitive
ones (32 studies) published
between 1937 and 1975.
By comparing the rates of
information transmitted by psi in
these experimen ts, he discovered
that real-time ESP works up to 10
times better than precognition !
Such a discovery doesn't seem
consistent with the concept that
psi, in its different guises, is some
sort of uniform process.
Dr. Tart published his findings
in 1983 in a long, technical paper
entitled "Information acquisitio n
r ates in ESP experiments: preco g¬
nition does not work as welT a s
present-time ESP ." (See the Jour¬
nal of the American Society for
Psychical Research, Vol. 77.)
There he offers three explana¬
tions for his findings:
1) Perhaps subjects taking part
in precognition experiments per¬
ceive the task as difficult, thereby
inhibiting themselves from scor¬
ing well.
2) Real-time ESP and precog¬
nition may rely on different men¬
tal processes, one better than the
other.
3) External reality could be
such that it is more difficult to
"collect" information from the
future than from the present.
Dr. Tart eventually rejected the
first explanation. In his book
ON THE PSYCHIC FRONTIER
Open Mind, Discriminating Min d
(San Francisco, Harper and Row,
1990), he concedes that cultural
bias with regard to precognition
could explain his findings; but he
adds, "If that is so, why is the
idea of precognition so unaccept¬
able? I am not inclined to put too
much weight on this explanation.
Cultural bias is very important,
as I emphasize throughout this
book; but in the hundreds of peo¬
ple tested for precognition over
the years you would think there
would be an occasional person
who hadn't absorbed the cultural
prejudice that well, and so might
try hard and score very well on
precognition."
COLLECTING THE DATA
Could it be possible to make
precognition more reliable in the
laboratory? Designing better pre¬
cognition experiments might be a
step in the right direction.
This is the precise issue that
researchers at the Psychophysical
Research Laboratories in Prince¬
ton, New Jersey, recently began
exploring. (I reported in my
January column that PRL is clos¬
ing because of financial prob¬
lems, but researchers there com¬
pleted this project and their offi¬
cial paper is pending publica¬
tion.) It is the exact project first
suggested to me back in Durham,
when unlimited computer re¬
sources were only a dream.
Charles Honorton (the lab's
director) and Diane C. Ferrari'N
scanned parapsychology's litera- \
ture from 1935 to 1987 in order to J
find and computer analyze every
published precognition experi- I
ment. They eventually found 309 /
experiments conducted by 62
researchers. The experiments
relied upon several different
designs. Some had subjects
guessing the order of ESP cards
shuffled months later, while oth¬
ers were computer experiments
in which the subjects guessed
events taking place only millisec¬
onds later. By looking at the sta¬
tistical results of these experi¬
ments, the researchers could easi¬
ly see t hat precognition is a weak
phenomenon. Despite this prob-
lem, ho wever, 30 per cent of the
e xperiments they located repo rt¬
ed "extrachance” scoring.
The computer scan revealed
that four primary factors were
involved: —^
1) Subjects with a prior history
of successful ESP scoring in the
lab performed better on precog¬
nition experiments than unselect¬
ed subjects.
2) Better results were procured
when the subjects were tested
individually rather than in
groups.
3) Subjects given some sort of \
feedback scored better than those )
not offered this information. ^
4) Experiments into the imme-
June1990/FATE 37
diate future succeeded better
than experiments into the distant
future.
The fourth factor isolated by
the PRL researchers could be the
most significant. It suggests tha t
precognition's efficiency is com ¬
promised by temporal factors .
The PRL researchers even discov-
ered a consistent temporal effect
in their data, with the success
r ates of the precognition exper i¬
ments exponentially falling o ff
with time.
This pattern could be explained
by Dr. Tart's third suggestion:
that the fabric of reality is such
that it becomes increasingly diffi¬
cult to collect information from
further temporal points. But by
looking into their data more
closely, they found that the tem¬
poral distance effect in their
st udy was primarily linked to
t hose experiments employing
unselected subject s. Selected or
"gifted" subjects demonstrated
less scoring problems when chal¬
lenged with far-distant precogni¬
tion. This pattern suggested that
e xceptional ESP subjects can sim -
ply overcome some sort of psy¬
chological bias.
The PRL research leads us to
wonder why are some people
biased against precognition? Is it
because there is something about
precognition is intrinsically
frightening?
Tart is particularly interested
38 FATE/June 1990
in this possibility. In Open Mind,
Discriminating Mind he writes,
"Suppose you could go to a para¬
psychology laboratory next week
and receive a treatment that
made you strongly precognitive.
Some advantages are clear: You
could call your broker because
you have a good idea as to what
stocks will go up or down. You
could decide not to visit city A
next week because you know
that an earthquake is coming.
This could be appealing.
"But do we really want the full
burden of precognitive ability?
Do you want to know about com¬
ing tragedies to loved ones that
you may not be able to prevent?
Do you want to bear the laughter
and rejection of others when you
intervene in their lives with the
explanation that you're acting on
the basis of a 'psychic vision'? Do
you want to feel the responsibili¬
ty of intervening? Do you want
to have to judge whether you
should intervene or not? If a par¬
ticularly nasty person is going to
be run down by a car at the next
intersection, do you try to rescue
him? Do you want to know when
your friends are going to die?
When you are going to die?"
In light of these possibilities, is
it really surprising that people
shy away from precognition
when challenged to demonstrate
it in the laboratory? Perhaps not.
OO
by Mark Chorvinsky
*LIZAI?D MAN-
' CPEATUPE FI?OM
: BLACK LAGOON?
I Have received numerous let¬
ters from readers of this column
requesting additional informa¬
tion on the famous Lizard Man,
the scaly greenish-brown crea¬
ture with glowing red eyes from
Scape Ore Swamp near Bishop-
ville. South Carolina.
During the summer of
1988, haunting accounts
of encounters with this
strange entity escalated
into one of the most
highly-publicized mon¬
ster flaps of all time. The
Lizard Man was the mon¬
ster of the last decade Mark Chorvinsky
and is destined to occupy a hal¬
lowed position in the American
monster pantheon.
Lizard Man owes much of his
celebrity to witness Chris Davis'
retelling of the dramatic June 30,
1988 confrontation between him¬
self and a seven-foot-tall green,
scaly creature with glowing red
eyes. Seventeen-year-old Davis
was on Browntown Road in
Bishopville when he saw the
entity run toward him on two
legs from a field about 30 yards
away. Davis jumped into his car
and his moonlit flight from the
monster (during which the crea¬
ture allegedly jumped onto the
hood) captured the attention of
the international media and
made the Lizard Man a
star. This chilling, har¬
rowing encounter was
not the first sighting of
the Lizard Man, though,
and it would not be the
last. The creature caught
up with the vehicle,
grabbed the door handle,
and jumped onto the
roof of the car, enabling Davis to
see that the creature had three
fingers with long black finger¬
nails. This incident became
famous as a Lizard Man sight¬
ings, but in fact most investiga¬
tors believed at the time that
Davis saw a skunk ape or
Bigfoot, not a lizard creature.
It may be very significant that
39
the little-publicized fact that
Chris Davis said he heard a story
about an overgrown, slimy lizard
in that area as far back as two
years ago, but that he "didn't pay
attention to it at the time." (He
obviously paid some attention to
it or he wouldn't have remem¬
bered it two years later, and the
extent to which it lurked in his
subconscious may have some
bearing on his case).
A TASTE FOP CWPOME
Davis kept this encountef
quiet until another strange inci-'
dent occurred. On the morning of
Friday, July 15, 1988, Tom and
Mary Waye woke up and found
their Ford LTD all "chewed up."
The vehicle was covered with
sand, scratches, and teeth marks.
Chrome moulding was ripped
off, the hood ornament was
snapped, and wires were man¬
gled from the underside of the
car engine. Hair samples found
on the car, numerous small
tracks, and the chewed wires led
many to determine that the prob¬
able cause for this much-publi¬
cized event was a fox. Before the
fox determination was made,
however, this incident provoked
Sheriff Liston Truesdale to inves¬
tigate rumors of several sightings
of a strange humanoid monster
in the area.
Truesdale learned that the first
Lizard Man encounter of 1988
40 FATE/June 1990
occurred one evening during the
third week of June when a
strange, huge beast with big, red¬
dish eyes jumped out from the
woods at then 32-year-old
George Hollomon and his broth¬
er (friend?) when they were get¬
ting water from an artesian well
at the bridge on Scape Ore
Swamp in Browntown, SC.
^ Friday night, July 15th, 1988, a
man contacted the Bishopville
Sheriff's office and said he had
run over a huge creature "with
an alligator face" on Browntown
Road's Scape Ore Swamp Bridge,
but nothing was found. The fol¬
lowing week, Joseph Thomas of
Browntown heard noises outside
his house, and upon investigat¬
ing, saw the Lizard Man standing
by his 1974 Ford LTD. Mr.
Thomas described the creature as
"big as anything with glowing
red eyes." On Sunday night, July
24, 1988, at 3 a.m., teenagers
Rodney Nolf, Shane Stokes and
their dates reported that a seven-
foot-tall creature with glowing
eyes dashed in front of their car
across US-15 at 1-20, leaped over
a six-foot fence, and rambled off
into the woods.
UZAPDMANIA
The Lee County Sheriff's office
was plagued with as many as 100
calls per day requesting more
information, necessitating the
installation of a Lizard Man
OUR STRANGE WORLD
Hotline. On many nights in the
last two weeks in July, 75 or more
hunters would scour the Scape
Ore Swamp searching for the
creature. On Saturday night, July
30th, there were an estimated
300-400 people roaming the
swamps in search of a creature
that had attained "instant leg¬
end" status.
After the Hollomon, Davis
and Waye cases, the sightings of
a large unknown creature near
the Scape Ore swamp continued.
"One Browntown resident claimed
that their trailer was
scratched, clawed
and scraped in an
area in back of their
mobile home. The
owners believe this
to be the work of
the Lizardman," ac¬
cording to the pri¬
vately-published
Lee County Lizard
Gazette, vol. 1, p 1.
Eugene Bracey and
Leroy Black, Brown-
town residents, de¬
scribe hearing odd
noises at night
around their houses and their
dogs barked. Bracey and Black
also state that they have spoken
to unidentified eyewitnesses who
say that the creature stood
approximately six feet tall.
"Various Browntown residents
have mentioned that they have
spotted the thing now being
referred to as Lizardman, along
backroads leading to 1-20, noting
that motorists could not help but
see it," according to the Lee
County Lizard Gazette. The Gazette
also mentioned an unconfirmed
report that a local church had
water hoses stripped from out¬
side faucets, but no other damage
was reported.
On August 12, 1988, a Lee
County man told police that he
had seen something "not hu¬
man" running across a field by S.
C. 527 in Elliot (Lee Co. Observer,
Bishopville, SC, August 17,1988).
On August 15, 1988, around 7:30
P.M., a Lee County woman in¬
formed officials that she had seen
a hominid creature standing in
June 1990/FATE 41
[They] were stunned to find a
fresh set of three-toed, clawed,
14 x 7-inch footprints embedded
one-inch deep into the road
and crossing the squad car’s
previous tire tracks. Whatever
left the prints had crossed the
road only minutes before.
front of her door. (Lee Co.
Observer, Bishopville, SC,
August 17, 1988.) Soon after, an
unidentified Armed Services
officer sighted a little dinosaur
in the area. While his name has
not been released by Sheriff
Truesdale, it is known that the
report was taken very seriously.
MONSTER TRACKS?
On July 24,1988, the same night
as the US-15 sighting, Lee County
deputy Wayne Atkinson and state
trooper Mike Hodge investigated
the area around Bramlett Road, a
dirt road near the Scape Ore
Swamp. The two officers stopped
and got out of their cars to look at
some toppled garbage cans, then
drove down the road and turned
around. They backtracked up
Bramlett Road, they again stopped
at the garbage can site to investi¬
gate a nine-foot-high broken tree
limb and were stunned to find a
fresh set of three-toed, clawed, 14
x 7-inch footprints embedded one-
inch deep into the road and cross¬
ing the squad car's previous tire
tracks. Whatever left the prints had
crossed the road only minutes
before.
Officers Atkinson and Hodge
followed the tracks for 300 yards.
During this time, they had a feel¬
ing that "something was watch¬
ing them." Police dogs were
brought in, but could not pick up
any scent. The officers, suspecting
42 FATE/June 1990
a hoax, looked for human prints
and vehicle markings, but came
up empty-handed. Plaster casts
were made of the bizarre tracks.
Monstrous tracks found in
1977 on a farm owned by D. W.
Berry in Saluda County, 35 miles
west of Columbia, SC were exact¬
ly the same size. However, Berry
now relates that some of his bud¬
dies had insinuated recently that
the tracks had been a prank and
had been carved out of a cedar
tree by them.
BROTHER ELMORE
There have been a number of
rumors in Brown town concerning
a gentleman known only as
"Brother Elmore." Evidently,
Brother Elmore has a beanfield
adjacent to the location of Chris
Davis' encounter, and some resi¬
dents have mentioned that
Brother Elmore had made up tales
of a local swamp monster to scare
people away from his field. I have
come across numerous instances
of monsters being used as a "psy¬
chological scarecrow" to instill
fear in people. Browntown resi¬
dent Cheryl Maples said that
Elmore has taken husks from peas
that he grows and fashioned them
into a costume that he wears to
frighten people who he thinks
might steal from him. Yet another
Brother Elmore rumor is that the
crusty old guy actually shot the
Lizard Man. Sheriff Truesdale
OUR STRANGE WORLD
spoke with Brother Elmore, how¬
ever, and concluded that Elmore
had not shot it and had not start¬
ed the rumor that he shot it.
One hoax came to light when
an airman at claimed that he shot
the creature and recovered blood
and scale samples. He later admit¬
ted that he fabricated the shooting
to keep the legend alive, and was
arrested by Sheriff Truesdale.
Many jumped to the conclusion
that the entire case was a hoax
based solely on this event.
Sheriff Truesdale started out as
a disbeliever, but he now believes
that there is some strange crea¬
ture prowling the Scape Ore
Swamp. Perhaps the strongest
Lizard Man sighting yet, oc¬
curred on August 28, 1988. An
Army Colonel whose name has
not been released by the police
was driving on McDuffy Road,
near Scape Ore Swamp, when a
creature that he describes as a
small dinosaur ran across the
road in front of his car. There
have been several additional
sightings as well as new tracks
that were found in the snow this
past winter. Also, there is evi¬
dence that animals in the area
have been found decapitated. I
am now investigating these
reports and will report on them
in the future.
HUGO VERSUS LIZARD MAN
Last year. Hurricane Hugo
decimated parts of South Carolina,
including major damage to Scape
Ore Swamp, the lair of the Lizard
Man. I have a strong feeling,
though, that we have not heard
the last of this intriguing creature.
[I would like to acknowledge the
assistance of Jan Tuten of The State,
Columbia, South Carolina and of
Mark Opsasnick.]
Consulting editor Mark Chorvinsky
(PO Box 2246, Rockville, MD 20847)
edits Strange Magazine ($14.95/4 issue
sub.) and the special edition Monsters
& Mystery Animals ($5.95), and
researches and investigates a wide vari¬
ety of strange phenomena.
OO
THE DEADLY RWVDtfD
By Peggy Hughley
A kimono was successively owned
by three teenage girls, each of
whom died before wearing it. The
kimono was believed to be so
unlucky that it was actually cremat¬
ed by a Japanese priest in February
of 1657.
A wind sprung up as the garment
burned, spreading the flames. The
resulting fire destroyed three-quar¬
ters of Tokyo—300 temples, 500
palaces, 9,000 shops and 61 bridges—
and killed 100,000 people.
OO
June 1990/FATE 43
THE TITANIC
A DISASTER FORESEEN?
Was the fate of the mighty Titanic predicted in a novel? FATE reveals the truth
about this popular myth while disclosing just one of the many mysteries that sur¬
rounds the death of one of the world’s most famous ships.
By George M. Behe
She has lain in dark silence for
three quarters of a century now;
lost in her memories, a prisoner of
the icy blackness that surrounds
her. But she is not alone, for she
did not die alone. Her death
throes claimed the lives of two
thirds of her passengers and
crew—1,500 people—whose pres¬
ence was felt by the explorers
who finally discovered her resting
place. Tom in half, she now lies on
the seabed, her innards scattered
around her in the desolation.
Once she was a queen, the
largest and most beautiful ship in
the world. A few lucky people
can still remember viewing her
magnificence with their own
eyes. Fewer still are those who
sailed on her and were lucky
enough to survive. But everyone,
even today, recognizes her name.
She was the Titanic.
The month of April 1912 was a
high point in the annals of the
White Star Line, one of Britain's
leading steamship lines. RMS
Titanic, the newest addition to
their stable of thoroughbreds,
was about to enter service as a
carrier of passengers and mail.
She was the largest moving
object ever created by the hand of
man—882 feet long, 92 feet wide,
46,000 tons. A double bottom had
been built into her hull, with
44
THE TITANIC—A DISASTER FORESEEN?
transverse watertight bulkheads
spaced along her length dividing
her into 16 watertight compart¬
ments. These, it was felt, would
be more than enough to insure
the ship's safety in the event of a
mishap. Any water which some¬
how managed to get through the
double bottom and enter the hull
would be contained in one of
these compartments, allowing
the rest of the ship to continue
normal operations.
AN ACCIDENT?
UNTHINKABLE!
The mere sight of the Titanic
was enough to inspire total confi¬
dence. Her four great funnels
towered into the sky, a symbol of
the final mastery of man over
Nature. A serious accident to the
ship was unthinkable. Indeed,
her master. Captain Edward J.
Smith, has been quoted as say¬
ing, "Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that."
The British Board of Trade
seems to have complacently
agreed with him; their lifeboat
regulations, long out of date,
required that any ship of 10,000
tons or more must carry only 16
wooden lifeboats. The Titanic, at
46,000 tons, was carrying the
required 16 boats, with an addi¬
tional four Englehardt "collapsi¬
ble" boats thrown in for good
measure. Its total lifesaving
capacity was 1,178 people. The
Titanic was certified to carry a
maximum of 3,000 people, but no
one seems to have given much
thought to this enormous defi¬
ciency in lifesaving equipment.
Word of mouth had it that the
great vessel was unsinkable, so
what was the use of cluttering up
the deck with more lifeboats?
A single look at the sumptu¬
ous public rooms on the great
vessel made one almost forget
that he was even on a ship. What
could possibly go wrong?
PREDICTIONS OF DOOM
And yet, there were people
who became absolutely certain
that something was going to hap¬
pen to the Titanic on her maiden
voyage. Although a few of these
people had no direct connection
with the ship, others were among
those who had booked their pas¬
sage on the great liner. Of the lat¬
ter, several people actually can¬
celled their passage, preferring to
take any other ship rather than
sail on the Titanic. Others, in spite
of grave misgivings, retained
their bookings for the maiden
voyage of the great vessel.
Many of them paid for that
decision with their lives when
the Titanic foundered after strik¬
ing an iceberg in the mid-Atlantic.
THE FUTILITY "PREDICTION"
The best-known "premoni¬
tion" of the Titanic disaster was
June 1990/FATE 45
probably not a premonition at all.
It occurred in 1898, 14 years
before the maiden voyage of the
Titanic, and, on the surface, bears
striking similarities to what actu¬
ally befell the great liner.
This "premonition" came in
the form of a novel by Morgan
Robertson entitled Futility, which
told the story of the Titan, the
largest ship in the world. Her
dimensions were roughly compa¬
rable to those of the real Titanic;
her equipment was the most
modern, her crewmen the best.
The Titan set sail one April day
with a full complement of pas¬
sengers, but with insufficient
lifeboats to accommodate every¬
one on board.
To help insure a record cross¬
ing, great triangular sails had
been hoisted on each of the
Titan's two masts. Her master
was so intent on making a speed
record that, when his vessel acci¬
dentally rammed a windjammer,
no effort was made to stop and
pick up survivors. One of the
doomed sailors in the water
shouted up a curse, calling on God
to avenge the heartless behavior
of the departing steamer.
Later, on a foggy but moonlit
night, the Titan encountered an
iceberg in the mid-Atlantic and
was unable to turn in time to pre¬
vent a collision. The big steamer
ran up onto the sloping shelf of
an iceberg, sliding forward and
46 FATE/June 1990
upward onto the ice until she
was almost completely out of the
water. The vessel toppled heavily
onto her starboard side, her
machinery smashing down and
rupturing her side plates. The
Titan then slid back down the ice
slope into the sea, her starboard
lifeboats being smashed in the
process. Only a handful of people
survived when the vessel sank.
RESEARCH, NOT PSYCHISM
The above story about Robert¬
son's fictional Titan is usually the
first one trotted out by authors
discussing psychic aspects of the
Titanic disaster. Several bogus
stories have arisen concerning
the circumstances under which
Robertson's novel was written.
These usually claim that the
author either dreamed the details
of his novel or that he "went into
a trance" and "saw" the events of
the novel unfold, later writing
the details down in the form of
fiction. These tales are untrue.
Robertson's novel was written in
the same mundane manner so
well understood by all authors—
the "seat of the pants technique."
The similarities between Rob¬
ertson's novel and the sinking of
the Titanic are obvious, and many
authors have played up these
parallels through the years. Tables
have even been compiled com¬
paring the specifications of the
two vessels and the circum-
THE TITANIC—A DISASTER FORESEEN?
stances of their sinkings. The
similarities seem uncanny at first,
but, when considered in a broad¬
er context, they are really perfect¬
ly understandable.
Morgan Robertson had wished
to write about the greatest ship in
the world, but he did not want
his literary creation to be rapidly
overtaken and outdated by new
advances in shipbuilding. To
avoid this, he simply projected
the dimensions of his fictional
ship a couple of steps ahead of
the technology of 1898. By postu¬
lating a ship of a certSin length,
he could roughly calculate her
tonnage, carrying capacity and
other specifications. Although it
thus becomes obvious that physi¬
cal similarities between the Titan
and the Titanic would be almost
automatic. One glaring difference
between the two ships is immedi¬
ately apparent: Robertson still
envisioned the continued use of
auxiliary sail in steamers of the
future, a characteristic which the
Titanic did not possess.
As to the insufficient number
of lifeboats on the fictional Titan,
Robertson was utilizing a trend
which was visible even in 1898.
He knew of the lack of regula¬
tions governing an increase in the
number of required lifeboats as
ship sizes increased. The author
merely projected this trend to its
June 1990/FATE 47
extreme, but logical, end result—
namely, a huge liner foundering
with too few boats to save her
passengers.
The plot of Robertson's novel
required that the Titan be de¬
stroyed very suddenly, with only
a handful of survivors escaping
the disaster. The author ruled out
a storm at sea as being his instru¬
ment of destruction, since any
storm capable of destroying the
largest ship in the world would
also destroy her lifeboats (along
with the survivors necessary for
the novel's conclusion). A colli¬
sion with another ship was also
ruled out, as was a shipboard
fire, as these disasters would not
have destroyed the Titan quickly
enough (and would have intro¬
duced more lifeboats and sur¬
vivors into the story, interfering
with the ending which Robertson
had planned for his novel).
It appears that a spectacular
collision with an iceberg was the
only mishap that Robertson
could envision which might
simultaneously destroy the Titan
and still fulfill all of his plot
requirements. Robertson himself
was a seaman, and he knew how
dangerous an iceberg in the ship¬
ping lanes could be. Indeed, this
danger was merely confirmed in
1912 when an iceberg claimed
the Titanic on her maiden voy¬
age.
The most outstanding similari-
48 FATE/June 1990
ty between the Titanic and Rob¬
ertson's fictional ship was the
author's choice of the name
"Titan." If he had instead chris¬
tened his ship the Neptune, it is
unlikely that many people would
have recalled his novel 14 years
later when the Titanic went down.
Indeed, this fortuitous choice of
names is probably the only thing
which rescued Robertson's novel
from complete obscurity.
Although many odd coinci¬
dental occurrences (including the
above novel) can be cited in rela¬
tion to the Titanic disaster, other
cases have origins which do not
seem to be rooted in coincidence.
During the writing of my book.
Titanic: Psychic Forewarnings of a
Tragedy, I was able to compile a
list of 29 cases which I felt were
possibly psychic in nature. I felt
that an additional 35 accounts
contained enough detail to be
classed as probable psychic phe¬
nomena, with many of these cases
being of a precognitive nature.
A REAL PREMONITION
The remainder of this article
will be devoted to the examination
of one of these latter cases—a
very poignant story involving the
death of the percipient herself.
The incident in question took
place in KfVkendbright, Scotland,
on the night of April 14,1912.
W. Rex Sowden was the captain
in charge of the city's Salvation
THE TITANIC—A DISASTER FORESEEN?
Army Corps, which had taken on
the responsibility of caring for a
little orphan girl named Jessie.
The child was lying in bed dan¬
gerously ill, and it was necessary
for someone to remain with her
at all times to monitor her condi¬
tion. Sowden knew this, and, on
the night of April 14th, he went
to bed confident that the little girl
was being properly looked after.
Shortly before 11 p.m. someone
knocked desperately on Sowden's
bedroom door, calling, "Will you
please come at once. Captain?
Jessie is dying."
Captain Sowden immediately
got out of bed, dressed and hur¬
ried to the room of the little
orphan girl. He sat at her bedside
for a few minutes until, at exactly
11 o'clock, Jessie suddenly sat up
in her bed. When she saw Sowden
sitting beside her, she begged
him, "Hold my hand. Captain. I
am so afraid. Can't you see that
big ship sinking in the water?"
Sowden thought that the girl's
mind was wandering, and he
attempted to comfort her, telling
her that she had been having a
nightmare. Jessie knew better.
"No, the ship is sinking," she
told him. "Look at all those people
who are drowning...Wally is play¬
ing a fiddle and is coming to you."
To humor her. Captain Sowden
looked around the room without
seeing anything out of the ordi¬
nary. He gently laid the little girl
back onto the bed, covered her
again, and then watched as she
lapsed into a coma.
Several hours went by while
Captain Sowden sat faithfully by
Jessie's bedside, but the child lay
almost motionless beside him.
Then, unexpectedly, Sowden
heard the latch on the bedroom
door move. Assuming that some¬
one was coming to check on the
little girl, the captain arose from
his seat. Opening the bedroom
door he was surprised to find the
hallway empty, but then, quite
suddenly, he had the eerie feeling
that someone had moved past
him and entered the bedroom.
Captain Sowden rushed back
to Jessie's bedside and saw that
the moment of crisis had arrived.
Death was only a few moments
away. The heartbroken man
stood looking down at the little
girl when she again opened her
eyes and looked at him.
"My mother has come to take
me to heaven," said Jessie quiet¬
ly. Captain Sowden held her
hand for a few moments, and the
little girl then died peacefully.
As Captain Sowden rose slowly
from the child's bedside, he again
heard the latch on the bedroom
door being lifted. Once again he
found no one visible when he
stepped into the hallway. Captain
Sowden felt certain, though, that
little Jessie and her mother had left
the bedroom together.
June 1990/FATE 49
WALLY THE FIDDLER
The vision of the sinking ship
which Jessie had experienced
took place at 11 p.m. in Scotland.
Allowing for the difference in
longitude, this was about three-
and-a-half hours before the
Titanic struck the iceberg. It
seems clear that the little girl's
experience was precognitive in
nature, but what of her mention
of the man named "Wally" who
was playing a "fiddle"?
Captain Sowden soon learned
that the leader of the Titanic's band
had been Wallace Hartley, whom
he had known well as a boy.
However, he had long ago lost
track of Hartley and didn't know
that "Wally" had gone to sea as a
ship's bandsman. Therefore, it
would seem that little Jessie's
vision was clairvoyant as well as
precognitive, for she had some¬
how known Hartley's first name.
Wallace Hartley and his fellow
bandsmen on the Titanic had
played their music to reassure the
passengers around them. The
musicians made no effort to save
themselves, and they died to a
man. Somehow, little Jessie
seemed to know that Wally would
not survive the catastrophe.
Later, in relating his account of
little Jessie's vision. Captain
Sowden made it very clear that
he was deeply impressed by
what he had witnessed.
"What I thought was halluci-
50 FATE/June 1990
nation," he said, "was a vision
that stamped itself indelibly on
my brain and changed my whole
spiritual outlook."
If an "impossible" event actu¬
ally does take place, we should
expect very few people to have
predicted that event before its
occurrence. The exact opposite
seems to have taken place con¬
cerning the historical event we
have just discussed. Dozens of
instances are on record concern¬
ing people who felt certain that
something would happen to the
"unsinkable" Titanic on her maid¬
en voyage.
One or two correct predictions
of this "impossible event" might
conceivably be attributed to
chance. But how many such pre¬
dictions of an "impossible event"
must come true before "coinci¬
dence" can be ruled out and fore¬
knowledge accepted as a more
likely explanation?
The reader must decide for
himself.
References
1. Morgan Robertson. Futility.
M.F. Mansfield, 1898.
2. Bernhardt J. Hurwood. Strange
Talents. Ace Books, 1967.
3. Years of research on the Titanic
disaster which went into the
writing of my own book: Titanic:
Psychic Forewarnings Of A Tragedy.
Aquarian Books, 1988.
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By Anne Lyddane
The best astrological days to participate
in the following activities during June 1990.
Combines Sun, Moon and Planetary Aspects with Sign Positions.
Apply for a job:
15,19,20,28
Ask for a raise or promotion:
7,15, 20,27
Ask for credit or a loan:
7.15.19.27
Buy antiques or jewelry:
5.11.15.20.27
Buy a car or have repairs done:
7.13.19.28
Buy a permanent home:
11.15.20.27.28
Buy real estate for speculation:
7.15.19.20.28
Canning:
13.15.19.27
Consult a physician:
7.11.19.20.27
Cut hair for added thickness:
4,12,15,19,21
Cut hair to increase growth:
4,5,15
Cut hair to retard growth:
1,22
Entertain:
7.10.15.19.27
Fishing:
5.7.15.27
Gardening:
10,15,27,28
Hunting:
7,12,19,20
Marry for happiness:
6,10,11,15,19
Meditation:
7.10.15.19.27
Mow lawn to retard growth:
7,8,10,13
Permanents, hair coloring:
6.12.14.19.27
Purchase electronic equipment:
4.7.19.27
Purchase major appliances:
13.15.19.27
See dentist for extractions:
7.8.13.15.28
See dentist for fillings:
5.13.19.27
Sell home, property, possessions:
7.8.15.19.21
Sign important papers:
11,19,20,26
Sports activities:
7.12.20.21
Start a weight loss program:
1.7.13.27.28
Stop a bad habit:
1,6,8,10,27,
Travel by air:
12.13.20
Travel for business:
8.12.13.27
Travel for pleasure:
7.15.19.20
51
QUIRKS ^
By Harold Heifer Jl A JL»
It seems that you can get
mugged anywhere—even on a
golf course. This happened to
Oliver Anthony in Memphis. A
man with a pistol walked up to
him on the fairway and demand¬
ed his wallet. The golfer, 61 but
feisty, refused. The man with the
gun fired—and then turned and
fled. It wasn't until Mr. Anthony
got back to the clubhouse that he
noticed he'd been hit. There was a
hole in his upper pants leg. The
bullet was imbedded in a golf ball
in his pocket.
David Orchard, an 11-year-old
Glen Innes, Australia boy, stubbed
his toe while walking along a
gravel road on his way home
from school. Undoubtedly he has
not been the only boy to stub his
toe, but it is quite likely no other
boy has been so pleased about it.
He stubbed it on a big bluish
something—which turned out to
be a 575-carat sapphire worth
$375,000.
For Kings Mountain, NC auth¬
orities, it was like seeing a dou¬
ble. When Mike Howell discov¬
ered his bride already had a hus¬
band, he filed a bigamy charge.
Authorities decided to drop the
whole thing, however, after discov¬
ering that Howell had two wives.
In Stockholm, Sweden, a man
charged into a doctor's office,
accused him of having destroyed
his eyesight and shot him to
death. Police said he killed the
wrong man—a substitute physi¬
cian who hadn't even treated him.
What Miguel Espinoso of Bue¬
nos Aires, Argentina, did for a liv¬
ing was tinker with automatic
bank teller machines. It was strict¬
ly illegal, and a machine finally
got even with him. He was found
dead, on the ground, the tools he
used to pry open the machines
scattered around him. The ma¬
chine had electrocuted him.
Thersa Marciano and Toni Ann
Taunton gave birth to babies on
the same day in the same Valley
Strea, NY hospital in 1983. Five
years later, in the same hospital,
they gave a repeat performance,
and again became mothers on the
same day in the same hospital,
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52
SPEAKING
OF
ANGELS
By Maia Geikie
H ave you ever entertained
or been entertained by an
angel unawares? The question
is not so unlikely as you may
suppose.
In 1984 a
book entitled A
Handbook of Angels by H. C.
Moolenburgh (published
by the C.W. Daniel Company, 1
Church Path, Saffron Walden,
Essex, United Kingdom) was
translated from Dutch into
English and immediately made
the rounds of various occult fra¬
ternities in Britain. The author
had been prompted to write the
book by a sermon given in Leiden
in 1981 in which the minister
called angels "a forgotten group."
Dr. Moolenburgh began his
research with some 400 of his
own patients, asking each if they
believed in angels, and if they
had ever seen or had contact with
an angel. The result was both
spectacular and surprising—the
latter because many reported
sightings were of angels dressed
53
in everyday clothes.
After reading A Handbook of
Angels, I began to wonder about
an extraordinary experience of my
own and, indirectly, of my family,
which had occurred some years
ago. I feel certain that the manifes¬
tation witnessed at that time
could only have been that of an
angel. We have often discussed
the phenomenon among our¬
selves, yet it never occurred to us
that we may have been helped by
an angel—until now—although
we had realized our helper was
not someone of this world.
BAD WEATHER
FOR A VACATION
It happened some 13 years ago
while we were vacationing in
Wester Ross. Our group consisted
of my husband Ian, our daughter
Mary and her boyfriend Andy,
two large standard poodles and
myself.
As a holiday it hadn't been a
howling success because the
weather was more fitting for
ducks than dogs and humans.
Our cottage near Mellon Charles
had a leaky roof, necessitating an
assortment of buckets and bowls
stationed along the landing to
catch the drips, and at the same
time providing booby traps for
anyone dashing along to the
bathroom in the dark. Eventually
we gave up and moved to a hotel
in Aultbea.
One day we drove to the head¬
land at Wester Ross through hori¬
zontal rain and drifting mist as
this seemed more interesting
than watching rain through our
hotel windows. We parked near
the headland just beyond the vil¬
lage of Cove because the dogs
indicated they wanted to be let
out. Mary and Andy volunteered
to escort them while Ian and I
stayed in the car, a suggestion we
promptly accepted since the car
was warm and snug while out¬
side the elements were having
themselves a whale of a time.
We settled down with books
and papers while the younger
generation and canines braved
the weather. Five minutes later
Mary violently wrenched the
door open. Trying to make her¬
self heard above the yowling
wind, she screamed at me, "Come
quickly. Mummy, Jo has run over
the edge of the cliff and fallen
into the sea!"
That was the gist of the mes¬
sage, although at the time it
wasn't so clearly articulated.
Earlier I had taken off my shoes
and now had difficulty getting
them on again, so without fur¬
ther ado I chased after Mary in
stockinged feet.
JoJo (more often called "Jo"),
the younger of the two poodles,
had, in carefree abandon, charged
across the springy grass. The mist
was dense at the top of the head-
54 FATE/June 1990
SPEAKING OF ANGELS
land, and by the time she had
sensed the hidden cliff edge it
was too late. She skidded but
was unable to stop, and had
pitched over the edge into the
angry sea below.
100 FEET BELOW US JOJO
WAS ON A LEDGE OF DEATH
A small knot of spectators had
materialized out of the mist and
were gathered around Andy who
was explaining, "The tide flung
her onto the rocks and she's just
this minute managed to claw her
way on to that ledge." He pointed
to a spot 100 feet below us where
Jo sat on a narrow strip of rocky
terrain, howling her head off.
From where we stood, her face
looked to be quite bloody. The
small, narrow horseshoe-shaped
inlet afforded her some shelter
from the worst of the weather,
but the situation was bad.
There were about five or six
people on our side and a similar
number on the opposite edge of
the horseshoe. Everyone was
shouting at once, offering their
advice. Those on the opposite
side might just as well have
saved their breath as we couldn't
hear a word above the uproar of
the elements. I called down to Jo
repeatedly, but it was obvious
she couldn't hear me.
Having done a little rock dimb-
June 1990/FATE 55
ing in my youth, I decided to try
and reach Jo. Finding what looked
like a promising place I ventured
to descend, but after some seven
or eight feet I became hopelessly
stuck. The rock face sheered
steeply inwards making further
descent impossible without a rope,
so I climbed back to the top.
With the howling dog below,
the screaming wind and the
report of the sea—sounding just
like a gun being fired as it hit the
rocks—it seemed as if all hell had
let loose and we became more
and more desperate.
THE WEATHER WORSENS
The weather worsened and our
onlookers gradually drifted away,
but not without words of encour¬
agement and more hopeless
advice. They seemed to be just as
concerned for JoJo as we were.
Something urgent had to be
done. It was decided that Mary
and Andy should take the car
and drive to the village in hopes
of finding a fisherman intrepid
enough to brave the turbulent
waves and take a boat around the
headland to rescue Jo—a forlorn
hope, but worth a try. My hus¬
band thought that someone some¬
where must have a length of rope
and went in search of one while I
stayed to watch over my dog.
Jo sat on her narrow ledge
howling intermittently, every now
and then venturing to the cliff face
56 FATE/June 1990
as if seeking means of egress, but
always returning to the same spot
with a renewed burst of howling.
I kept calling in case she could
hear me but as she never looked
up, I concluded that my voice
couldn't reach her above the noise
of the storm. I climbed down the
rocks in my stockinged feet as far
as possible to get closer to her and
then called again, but still appar¬
ently in vain.
Time and again my eyes
searched the face of the inlet
seeking another way down, but it
was hopeless without ropes.
I REMEMBER MY TRAINING
Suddenly I realized I was sob¬
bing and had been doing so for
some time without it registering.
I began to take myself to task.
"What kind of occultist are you?"
I asked myself. "What price now
those years of training," while
mentally recapping ail I had
learned.
Jo's howling had become soft¬
er—more of a whimper as if she
was losing hope. Though I knew
she couldn't hear me, I shouted
down words of encouragement,
telling her everything was going
to be all right.
I was soaked to the skin, my
feet were cut and bleeding, and
yet from somewhere I gathered
faith enough to feel hope and ela¬
tion as I clung to the rocks and
began to intone the God-names.
SPEAKING OF ANGELS
"Adonai ha-Aretz, Adonai
Melekh, Adonai ha-Aretz,
Adonai, Adonai, A-don-ai," I
sang on and on, all the time
watching the sea for the boat I
willed to come.
Light was failing, the specta¬
tors had gone home, and the
family was somewhere trying in
their various ways to get help. I
was alone with the sea, the piti¬
less wind and rain and the occa¬
sional, desolate howling of JoJo.
Still I kept on vibrating the God-
names, invoking help for the dog
below who had always been spe¬
cial to me. Sometimes I changed
the ritual and called on Pan,
promising, bullying, begging,
"Sweet, sweet Pan."
TIME WAS RUNNING OUT
My watch told me the family
had been gone nearly two hours.
Soon it would be dark and with it
all hopes of rescuing Jo. I took up
my intoning with fresh urgency,
letting the God-names vibrate
across the sea with all the
strength and power of my being.
I stopped visualizing a boat as I
remembered that one did not tell
the Gods what to do. Instead I
visualized JoJo at the top of the
cliff, well, happy and wagging
her tail, and I held that mental
picture as I called on the Gods
unceasingly.
For some time I had been hear¬
ing what sounded like the echo of
my own voice, and yet it wasn't
my voice. I stopped intoning and
listened. There it was, as clear as
a repeating chorus: "Adonai ha-
Aretz, Adonai ha-Aretz."
The voices came from the sea,
from the wind and from the air
around. The elements had taken up
my song. I clung perilously to the
cliff, listening to that unearthly
chanting. Looking down to the
darkening sea, I could see faces
forming in the white foam and
hints of little figures as they
bounced off the rocks and dived
back into the seething waters. I
don't know how long I stood
there spellbound, looking and lis¬
tening, but it is a memory forever
engraved on my consciousness.
AN ORDINARY
MAN IN GREY
The spell was broken by a
voice and I looked across the
divide to the other side of the
inlet where a man stood—just an
ordinary man in grey, nonde¬
script clothing. He spoke, "Call
her up now." I obeyed unques-
tioningly and it never occurred to
me not to, never giving a thought
to the fact that JoJo couldn't hear
me nor the impossibility of her
making the ascent.
With a desperate urgency I
shouted down to my dog, "JoJo!
Jo, come along girl, there's a good
dog, come on up." She lifted her
head toward me, gave a single
June 1990/FATE 57
bark and bounded up the solid
face of the rock. Realizing the
danger of my own position on the
cliff face right in the line of her
ascent, I clambered as fast as I
could to safe ground. Jo wasn't
far behind me. She was strangely
quiet and obviously suffering
from shock as I hugged her to me.
THE FAMILY RETURNS
Then everything happened at
once. The family returned en
masse: Ian with a coil of mucky
rope which he didn't think
would be much help, and Mary
and Andy to report on their
unsuccessful attempt to get a
fisherman to risk boat and life on
an increasingly dangerous sea.
Because of the poor light they
didn't see Jo immediately, but
when they did, they gaped with
amazement and crowded around
her expressing heart-felt relief,
demanding, "But how? HOW?"
"A man told me to call her
up," I explained inadequately.
"What man?" inquired my hus¬
band, peering through the mist.
I pointed across the horseshoe
inlet and there was no man,
nobody, just the swirling mist,
the sea, the wind and the fast¬
gathering dusk.
Remembering that I hadn't
thanked the Gods, I unashamed¬
ly threw up my arms to the rain
and sky and cried out my grati¬
tude while the family stared
58 FATE/June 1990
down at the sea below, and with
a continuing mantram kept
repeating it was impossible.
Impossible, yes. But it had
happened. We discussed the mir¬
acle for most of the night. There
was no way I could have heard a
voice across the inlet, but I had.
The cliff face inclined inwards
and was impossible to scale but
Jo had come up it, unaided.
There could only be one answer. I
had called upon the Gods and
the Gods had answered. Was
their emissary an angel in nonde¬
script grey?
We rushed Jo some 20 miles to
the vet. Apart from a few cuts
and shock she appeared undam¬
aged. Her toenails were the worst
affected, frayed right down to the
quick where she had struggled to
heave herself from the water onto
the rocks.
It wasn't until we arrived back
at the hotel that we realized it
was September 29th, Michael's
Day, named after the Archangel
closest to humankind. Could the
man have been Michael?
Editor's note: In the Jewish (and
magical) tradition there are many
names for God. Adonai, Adonai
Melech and Adonai ha-Aretz mean
My Lord, My Lord and King and
Lord of the Earth respectively. Pan is
the Greek deity of the woods, fields
and flocks.
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EARTH DAY
13 kr ■
By Zoh M. Hieronimus
There are two basic myths
which constitute most of the
world's creation
stories. One says
that human be¬
ings were made
from clay and
dust, and then
animated by the
breath of the cre¬
ator; the other
says that hu¬
mans descended
from heaven. In
both there is a
descent into mat¬
ter, an explicit breathing into the
earth, a union and identification
with the soil. The soil can be con-
April 22, 1990, is the 20th
Anniversary of Earth Day. This
important day will be celebrat¬
ed worldwide. Programming for
children, colleges, businesses,
town forums, clean ups, leg¬
islative proclamations and
much more will add to the gain¬
ing momentum in the environ¬
mental movement. Here’s how
each of us can do our part to
make Earth Day a part of every
day.
sidered a measure of our well¬
being.
"That the earth
was ailing— al¬
most beyond re¬
pair—was clear
enough as early
as 1912 to Nobel
Prize winner. Dr.
Alexis Carrel.
'Since soil is the
basis for all hu¬
man life,' be¬
cause all life is
fed by it, he rea¬
soned, 'our only
hope for a healthy world rests on
reestablishing the harmony in the
soil we have disrupted by our
59
modem methods of agronomy.
"We have separated ourselves
from Nature in our hearts and
actions but in fact, man and his
ecological environment are insep¬
arable. What we do to the Earth,
we do to ourselves." (Christopher
Bird and Peter Tompkins, Secrets
of the Soil.)
To the ancients, the Earth was
the stuff of man, oxygen, hydro¬
gen, carbon and nitrogen. Space
was not empty, but was consid¬
ered the etheric formative matrix
from which all life was engen¬
dered. All ancestral teachings
include acknowledgement of
beings from other worlds, praise
for the laws of orders and magni¬
tudes of the seasons, cosmos and
relatives. The mother, father, sis¬
ter, brother, grandfather, great
grandmother, etc., described
human relations as well as Na¬
ture's order.
PARADISE ON EARTH
Riane Eisler, in The Chalice and
the Blade, writes that there was a
20,000-year period of partnership
between women and men in a
primarily horticultural society
that reached a high point during
the Minoan period (c. 4,000-
15,000 B.c.). One still witnesses
the harmonious partnership
between men, women and Na¬
ture. It was, she asserts, a series
of earthquakes and tidal waves,
accompanied by the invasion of
60 FATE/June 1990
nomadic herdsmen that de¬
stroyed this paradisiacal state.
EARTH DAY 1990
What we do to the Earth we
do to ourselves. Therefore, we
must change the way we interact
with our environment and each
other if either we or the planet
are to survive. We must deliber¬
ately change our consciousness
and willingly pursue industries,
technologies and life habits
which contribute to planetary
sustainability. Protecting, restor¬
ing and preserving the Earth will
require important acts.
On April 22, 1990, millions of
people all over the world will
participate in such an act by
showing their concern and
respect for the planet Earth. Earth
Day 1990 commemorates the
20th Anniversary of the first
Earth Day. That first celebration
helped spawn the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and the
Clean Air Act. Among other
things. Earth Day 1990 will offer
heightened media and individual
attention to our planetary ecosys¬
tem. Thousands of tree plantings,
recycling programs, preservation
measures, proclamations of
intent, festivals, religious ser¬
vices, school projects, organic
food programs, town meetings,
concerts, stream and park clean¬
ups will be held around the
world. Individuals, private, state.
EARTH DAY 1990
national and international orga¬
nizations and governments are
taking part in some way to accel-
erate the global community's
sensibilities and knowledge
about our current environmental
problems and to promote person¬
al and community solutions.
Many supporters hope that this
will start us on our way to chang¬
ing our problematic practices and
create a just and sustainable
future.
The International Campaign
for Earth Day has created coali¬
tions of diverse groups and agen¬
das—an historic accomplish¬
ment. Some even want "dirty
industries" such as petrochemi¬
cal, paper and waste manage¬
ment firms to participate in rais¬
ing their own and community
awareness. Other fighters for the
environment fear a buy off of
public opinion and political
manipulation by polluters if they
are allowed to either help fund
programs or join the community
in paying homage to our planet.
Though I do not share this view¬
point, it is an issue of importance
for each of us to reflect upon—
who is without blame for our
environmental predicament?
THE HEART OF
THE BIOSPHERE
A new sense of the wholeness
of our biosphere (planet) will be
characterized by a consciousness
that expresses harmony and inte¬
gration. To achieve this mutuality
and abundance, "a system gov¬
erned by human consciousness
must be infused with the spirit of
an open heart." (Andrew Bark
Schmookler, Out of Weakness).
Love, compassion and forgive¬
ness are prerequisite for reconcili¬
ation. After we meet the demons
within, we must forgive our¬
selves and each other and then
correct our actions. This appears
to be one of humanity's initia¬
tions on Earth.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Our homes are a microcosm of
our world. By looking at how we
live, what kinds of products we
buy and throw away, how we
manage our resources, what
kinds of household and personal
products we use, the foods we
eat, we can see how each one of
us impacts the environment.
The following lists are things
you and your family can do to
learn abut environmental issues
including learning activities for
children, ways to save energy,
eliminate toxic products, con¬
serve water, recycle waste, and
more.
SOME GOOD BOOKS
• 50 Simple Things You Can Do to
Save the Planet. The Earth Works
Group, 1989, Earth Works Press,
Box 25, 1400 Shattuck Ave.
June 1990/FATE 61
Berkeley, CA 94709
• Save Our Planet. Diane Mac-
eachern, Dell Publishing, 666
Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10103
• The Non-Toxic Home, and Non-
Toxic 6* Natural, Debra Lyn Dadd,
Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., 9110
Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
90069
TIPS FOR SAVING ENERGY
IN THE KITCHEN
• Open refrigerator door only
when necessary.
• Cook as many meals as possi¬
ble in the oven.
• Preheat oven for 8 to 10 min¬
utes only.
• Use pans with
flat bottoms and
tight-fitting lids.
• Cover pans to
avoid heat loss.
• Keep your stove
clean for efficient use.
• Keep oven door closed.
• Dishwashers use less hot water
than the average family uses
when doing dishes by hand.
• Operate dishwashers only when
full.
• After final rinse and before dry
cycle, turn dishwasher off (if the
instruction manual allows this
practice). Let dishes air dry.
• Use a little less detergent (man¬
ufacturers recommend more than
necessary).
• Use a low-phosphate, or phos¬
phate-free deteigent.
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DEVELOP THESE HEAT
SAVING HABITS
• Ask your local utility to per¬
form an "energy audit" of your
home.
• Wear warm clothing instead of
turning up the heat.
• Add extra blankets at night.
• Don't keep running in and out
of the house. It wastes a lot of
heat.
• Keep the heating thermostat at
65 degrees during the day and 60
degrees at night.
• Open drapes to let the Sun help
warm the house during sunny
winter days. Close them to save
warmth at night.
• Use a clothes¬
line instead of a
dryer when the
weather permits.
• Be sure to in¬
stall storm win¬
dows on every window.
• Test around all windows and
doors for drafts by moving a
lighted candle around the frames.
Seal the gaps with caulking or
weather-stripping.
• Close damper on fireplace
when it is not in use.
• Add insulation to your attic
floor or top-floor ceiling. Con¬
sider insulating exterior walls.
SAVE MONEY ON LIGHTING*
• Turn lights off when no one is
in the room.
• Use the Sun's light whenever
“Utopia is becoming the
only viable option open
to us all.”
Buckminster Fuller
EARTH DAY 1990
you can.
• Put three-way bulbs in lamps.
Use high wattage for reading and
low wattage for conversation and
general lighting.
• Use light-colored paint or
paper on your walls. It reflects
more light and will enable you to
use lower-wattage bulbs.
• Both indoor and outdoor safety
lighting can be automatically
turned on and off by photo-elec¬
tric cells or clock timers.
• Turn the TV, radio and stereo
off when no one is listening.
SAVE ENERGY (AND MONEY)
HEATING WATER
• Showers use less hot water
than a bath.
• Install flow restrictors in show¬
ers and faucets.
• Use washer only when you have
a full load of clothes.
• Insulate your hot water heater
and hot water pipes.
• Wash clothes in cold water
whenever possible.
SAVE ON TOILETS, TOO
• Put a bottle in your toilet tank
to use less water per flush (bricks
may dissolve and clog plumbing).
AVOID
PACKAGING POLLUTION
• If you can't recycle something,
reuse it. Buy products that will
last.
• Buy biodegradable products.
• Use biodegradable wax paper
to wrap sandwiches instead of
foil or plastic.
• Avoid excessive packaging.
• Buy in bulk.
• Reuse plastic bags.
• Buy eggs in cardboard cartons,
not plastic.
• Buy concentrated, multi-pur¬
pose products, such as laundry
soap that is also a bleach or a fab¬
ric softener, to cut down on pack¬
aging.
• If possible, buy unbleached
paper versions of products such
as coffee filters, milk cartons and
paper towels.
• Use non-aerosol sprays.
• Use rechargeable batteries for
flashlights and other household
gear.
• Shop at farmers' markets or co¬
ops.
• Avoid foam packaging—it re¬
leases CFCs that destroy the
Earth's protective ozone layer.
EAT LOW
ON THE FOOD CHAIN
• If your doctor approves, cut
down on the amount of beef you
eat. Cattle use up a large amount
of natural resources.
• Experiment with occasional
vegetarian meals.
• Do edible gardening. Grow
your own fruits, vegetables and
even grains.
• Support local farmers' markets.
• Join a local oiganic food co-op.
June 1990/FATE 63
DO YOU LIVE
IN AN APARTMENT?
• Use the roof for a garden or
hot-water-heating solar collec¬
tors.
• Turn basement into recycling
collection center.
ATYOUR
CHILDREN'S SCHOOL
• Send lunch in reusable contain¬
ers rather than bags.
• Put separate garbage cans in
cafeteria for organic wastes, paper
wastes and other kinds of trash.
• Set up a paper recycling opera¬
tion for classrooms as well as the
cafeteria.
• Insist that bugs and weeds on
school grounds be controlled
organically.
• Keep heat transfer coils, con¬
densers for air conditioning,
refrigeration, and drinking water
fountains free of paper and other
foreign materials that might inter¬
fere with air flow or heat transfer.
LAWN AND GARDEN CARE
• Plant trees. They help the plan¬
et breathe.
• Use integrated pest manage¬
ment which uses natural pest
controls and natural predators.
• Start an organically managed
garden.
• Start a compost.
• Don't use a chemical pesticide
unless all other methods of treat¬
ment which are non-toxic have
64 FATE/June 1990
been tried first.
• If your house or apartment is
sprayed for pests, open your
windows and don't enter for 12
hours if possible.
• Encourage your family and
neighbors to not spray their
lawns or gardens with toxic
chemical products. We all breathe
the air, drink the water and eat
our garden produce. Use organic
lawn care methods. Call the local
urban extension program or
USDA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
• Call local electric utility for free
information and an eneigy audit.
• Call your local water utility to
see what water conservation
devices they offer.
• Call your local recycling centers
to find what materials they col¬
lect, if they have curbside pickups
and on what days, or the locations
of the nearest drop-off centers.
• Check Yellow Pages to see what
is listed under:
Recycling
Environmental organizations.
Car or Van Pools
Diaper Services
Heating Services
Plumbing/Electrical Supplies
Working together we can have a
better planet—for ourselves, our
children, and for future
generations of the human race.
OO
Of course black dogs
exist. My neighbor even has one.
So what do I mean about whether
black dogs are fact or fancy?
These are a very special type of
black dog, namely the ones that
seem to appear suddenly along¬
side you on a dark country road,
run along with you for a while,
and then vanish suddenly.
Usually, they are harmless, even
if scary. However, they some¬
times have been reported to be
quite nasty and evil.
CHURCH WORSHIPPERS
ATTACKED BY BLACK DOGS
For example, on a Sunday
morning in August 1577, the peo¬
ple at the church in the British
town of Bungay had quite a
shock. In the middle of the ser¬
vice, a severe storm arose out¬
side. Suddenly, a large black dog
appeared in the middle of the
church. He ran between two
members of the congregation
who were kneeling in prayer. The
dog evidently "wrung the necks
of them bothe in one instant
clene backward, insomuch that
even at a moment where they
kneeled, they strangely dyed."
We know enough to recognize
that they really must have "died"
rather than "dyed," since dyeing
in church is not usually allowed.
65
In this case, another worshipper
was bitten by the dog on the
back. The bite caused the man to
be "presently drawen togither
and shrunk up, as if [he] were a
piece of lether scorched in a hot
fire..." The man "dyed not, but it
is thought is yet alive."
A similar incident involving a
black dog in church happened
that same month (some accounts
say that same day) in another
church at Blythburgh, about
seven miles away. In the latter
incident, the dog appeared on a
beam in the church, swung down
and "slew two men and a lad,
and burned the hand of another
person that was there among the
rest of the company, of whom
divers were blasted/' There was
supposedly a set of bum marks
left on the church door by the
dog as he left.
Hundreds of years later, the
paint was scraped from the doors
of this church by workmen, re¬
vealing the presence of what
appear to be scorch marks.
Of course, this type of attack
by a black dog is no longer any¬
thing that has been reported. Yes,
some of the dogs have been
reported to snarl menacingly and
not let you pass, but the attacks
and deaths are a thing of the
past. The black dog is often still
thought of as a sign from the
devil, but at least the devil isn't
using the dogs to kill.
66 FATE/June 1990
ARE BLACK DOGS REAL?
Some say that these black dog
"sightings" are real historical
events. The people who say they
saw black dogs of a spectral sort
really did see them, although the
"dogs" were clearly of a super¬
natural sort.
Another school of thought
says that the people who claim
sightings may well believe that
they saw a mysterious black dog,
but whatever it was that served
as the focus of the sighting—the
idea or image of the black dog—
was something from deep inside
the viewer's mind. To this school
of thought the black dog is a
symbolic image of evil, some¬
thing that black dogs have repre¬
sented to humanity for thou¬
sands of years.
This is the old conflict between
the historian and the folklorist.
The historian wants to know
what really happened. The folk¬
lorist simply cares what people
believed. I will adopt the position
of the folklorist in this article.
There is, of course, no way for
us to decide at this point whether
any of these incidents really hap¬
pened. If someone with a movie
or videotape camera were to pho¬
tograph or film the supposed
black dog during a sighting, and
the film or tape showed nothing
when viewed, then perhaps the
folklorist might feel vindicated
for accepting what people be-
BLACK DOGS: FACT OR FANCY?
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lieved. If, however, an image of a
black dog appeared on the film
or videotape, exactly as reported,
then the first explanation might
be more likely. Unfortunately, no
photographic evidence exists for
any black dog sighting.
There is at least one additional
complication to this set of two
possibilities. It is also possible
that a layer of myth (perhaps in
part derived from fictional treat¬
ments of the black dog theme, as
in Goethe's Faust), is superim¬
posed upon some actual histori¬
cal cases. This happens in many
other fields, such as with UFOs.
There are quite a few fictional
accounts of UFO encounters that
have been passed off as real.
Exactly how many such "real"
cases remain after the probable
fictitious ones are removed is an
open question, both for UFOs
and for black dogs.
SIGHTINGS OF BLACK DOGS
The interesting thing about the
black dog is how widely it has
been reported in the United
Kingdom. The Germans have
also reported seeing it. However,
France and the United States
don't seem to be among its
favorite areas. There are very few
reports of mysterious black dogs
in the United States, but the U.S.
seems to specialize in mysterious
humans and humanoids.
This richness of British sight-
68 FATE/June 1990
ings is probably due to the fact
that there is a long tradition of
such sightings in Britain. There¬
fore, folklorists are more likely to
record and investigate reports of
black dogs than would other
agencies (e.g., the police) in other
countries. There would be little
likelihood of police involvement
in any case, since none of the
more modem reports I can iden¬
tify involves any real harm to the
humans involved. Even in the
United Kingdom, the types of
reports and name given to the
mysterious dog(s) varies.
Among the names given to
this phenomenon (and hence to
the dog itself) are Shuck (Black
Shuck and Old Shuck as well),
Skeff, Moddey Dhoo, Trash,
Skriker, Padfoot, Hooter and
Gwyllgi. This wide variety of
names gives us the additional
information that the sightings
have been widespread, both geo¬
graphically and in time.
What do the sightings have in
common? Most of the dogs are
seen at night, have glowing red
eyes, vanish when you attempt to
touch them, are silent, non-hos-
tile, and leave no footprints, even
in the mud. There are numerous
exceptions to each one of these
characteristics in many reports.
These sightings did not only
take place in the past. Theo
Brown, perhaps the leading
British authority on the subject.
>: FACT ORFANC
Faust had trouble with black dogs as told in Goethe’s Faust. Here in his study
he attempts to quell the hellish fiend. Note the animal’s huge size, shaggy
coat and prominent, glowing eyes.
June 1990/FATE 69
identified some 39 incidents in
Britain from 1829 to 1958, when
her paper on this subject was
published.
SCRATCHING NOISES
At the edge of Dartmoor in
southern England in 1972, a
farmer and his wife were awak¬
ened by scratching noises outside
their bedroom door. The farmer
got out of bed and looked out¬
side the bedroom door into the
hall. He could see little at first,
but when he reached the top of
the stairs, he saw a large shadow.
It appeared to be a dog. Just as he
was about to shoo it outside with
the poker he was carrying for
protection, the dog moved toward
him. Its eyes were fiery red. The
farmer struck out at it. As he hit
it, there was a burst of light, the
crash of breaking glass, and the
dog vanished completely. Later,
the farmer and his wife discov¬
ered several interesting things as
they examined their home. The
electricity was out in the entire
house, and every window was
broken. There were broken roof
tiles all over the outside yard.
The roofs of a number of neigh¬
borhood hpuses had also been
badly damaged.
The earliest incident involving
a black dog of which we have a
record seems to be from a French
account by Bertin in the Anmles
Franorum Regnum, written in 856
70 FATE/June 1990
A.D. About halfway through the
services in a small French village
church, darkness enveloped the
building. A large, black dog mys¬
teriously appeared inside the
church, its eyes glowing fiercely.
The animal ran around the inside
of the church, as if looking for
something. It then suddenly dis¬
appeared without a trace.
HARBINGER OF DEATH?
On the Isle of Man in 1927, a
black dog was encountered by a
man on a road near Ramsey. The
dog blocked the road and refused
to let the man pass. After this
blockade went on for a short
time, the dog moved aside and
let the man pass. Shortly there¬
after the father of the man died.
The interpretation was that the
dog had brought the message of
the impending death. Black dogs
have often been called harbingers
of death.
Another example of this pre¬
monition of death can be seen in
a 1893 Norfolk, England case.
Two men driving a horse cart
were forced to stop the cart sud¬
denly due to the appearance of a
black dog in the middle of the
road. The driver wanted to drive
straight at the dog; the passenger
urged him against it. Finally, the
driver's patience ran out, and he
whipped the horse forward. As
the cart touched the dog, there
was the smell of sulfur, and the
BLACK DOGS: FACT OR FANCY?
dog vanished in a ball of flame.
Within a few days, the driver died
unexpectedly.
PHANTOM DOGS AND
THE CHURCH
Many British rural people
thought that black dogs were
"church grimes." These are a
sort of spirit that guards church¬
yards (i.e., small church cemeter¬
ies) from the devil. The origins
of this belief may be traced to
the old practice of burying a
black dog (of the ordinary sort)
on the north side of the church
cemetery, in order to spare a
human soul from having to
guard the graveyard. It was
thought that this duty fell to the
first person buried in the church¬
yard. This early affiliation of
churches and black dogs may
help to explain why many of the
early sightings were in the vicin¬
ity of churches.
Interestingly, many reports of
phantom dogs state that the dog
appeared unaware of the human
being who saw it. The dog appar¬
ently "haunted" a section of road
or an area. Sometimes the black
dogs seem to be on patrol in an
area. Often bridges mark the
beginning or end of a phantom
dog's patrol spot.
BLACK DOGS
AND LEY LINES
Some writers who investigate
black dogs (e.g., Janet and Colin
Bord) feel that the locations of
sightings can be linked with leys.
Ley theory says that many
ancient sites were located along
straight lines from each other.
These lines are called leys and
represented some sort of earth
current or energy flow pattern.
Perhaps, the Bords state, black
dog "patrols" occur along these
leys. Many churches (and their
churchyards) were built upon the
sites of earlier pagan shrines, the
location of which, in turn, was
often on a ley line. The Bords
even hypothesize that the ap¬
pearance of black dogs them¬
selves may be due to a "current"
passing along the leys. Since the
presence of such a current has
never actually been demonstrat¬
ed, their idea is pure speculation.
BLACK DOGS BATTLE
REAL DOGS
What happens when a ghostly
black dog meets a real live dog?
Actually, there are several occa¬
sions when this happened, all of
which indicates that there is
some physical reality to ghostly
black dogs. Pierre van Passen (in
1939) tells what happened when
he allowed his two police dogs to
meet a ghostly black dog that
passed his house regularly. The
dogs (who were inside) leaped
for the door. They bared their
fangs and snarled. They howled
June 1990/FATE 71
as if they were in pain. Although
the black dog could not be seen
this time by the human, the dogs
reportedly snapped and bit in all
directions. The battle lasted two
minutes. Then one of the "real"
dogs fell on the floor and died.
The appearance of black dogs
has sometimes been ended by the
performance of an exorcism ritual,
or by the display of religious arti¬
facts. It is difficult to know what
to make of this, as there have been
very few such cases.
DEVILS AND BLACK DOGS
In folklore from continental
Europe, there are instances of the
devil appearing in the form of a
dog (often a black dog). This tra¬
dition does not seem to mean
that all (or even most) black dog
sightings (especially not the
British sightings, where there is
no such tradition), are an appear¬
ance by the devil. Although some
devil appearances may be in the
form of a black dog, the reverse is
not true. Phantom dogs have also
been said to occasionally guard
treasures.
WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION
FOR BLACK DOGS?
Phantom dogs are something
that few people have tried to
explain. Theo Brown has made a
couple of attempts, but I will
leave it to the reader to judge
how successful they have been.
72 FATE/June 1990
She feels that one possibility is
that the black dog is an aspect of
a person at every stage of life, in
a Jungian sense. They are projec¬
tions from the unconscious, man¬
ifesting themselves visually at
times of crisis. It could be viewed
as a sort of "friendly double" in
disguise. Going against this inter¬
pretation most strongly is the fact
that black dogs have appeared to
different people at the same spot.
It is the location and not the per¬
son that seems to matter.
Another possible "explana¬
tion" offered by Brown is that it
is probably impossible to explain
the black dog in its own terms.
By that she means that the more
we think of the black dog as a
phenomenon , the more difficult it
is to explain. If, however, we
could find some ancient cult or
sect that had dogs as a symbol or
"totem," perhaps we could com¬
pare our black dogs with them
for significance. The lack of such
evidence from history indicates
that the symbolism aspect of
black dogs is what is important.
Some aspects of dog mytholo¬
gy that are based upon real-dog
behavior may be of help. A dog
howls at the Moon, similar to a
wolf. It can be an intimate associ¬
ate of humans (a possible symbol
for a vampire-like creature). It
protects property (i.e., it has a
guardian function). It scavenges,
and thus it is associated with
BLACK DOGS: FACT OR FANCY?
death and graveyards. It sees
"spirits," and so may serve as a
link between this world and the
next.
The one thing which does
seem clear is that the black dog of
British folklore seems to live out¬
side of the concept of human
time. It appears and disappears
from human sight by its own
contrivance.
CONCLUSION
What are we to make of all of
this? Frankly, I don't know. We
can hold all black dog stories up
to the standard demanded by the
historian, and then dismiss them
as lacking sufficient evidence. We
can also treat them (as I would
prefer) as evidence of some sort
of experienced perception on the
part of the viewer. How we are to
interpret this perception is anoth¬
er matter. Perhaps all black dog
perceptions originate in the mind
of the observer. That doesn't make
the black dog phenomenon any
less worthy of investigation and
explanation. Right now, we are
still back in the data-gathering
stage. Any real explanation will
have to await more data,
oo
PATSY CLINE’S PREMONITIONS OF DEATH
By Una
Many country music fans know
that superstar Patsy Cline died in a
March 5, 1963 light airplane crash.
Patsy always had a premonition of
early death, and there were many
other premonitions of tragedy sur¬
rounding that day.
Shortly before her 30th birthday,
September 8, 1962, Patsy insisted
^ that her friend, singer Dottie West,
keep her show business scrapbook
because, "I'll never live to see 30."
(She lived for 30 years and six
months.) She told another friend,
singer June Cash, "I'm going out
soon. Write something down for
me." As June later recounted in her
book From the Heart, Patsy gave
instructions about how she wanted
her children raised, and said that
she wanted her wake to be held in
Accurso
her home. It was the last time June
saw her friend.
Ellis Nassor’s biography, Patsy
Cline, adds to the incidents. In
March 1963, many country stars
went to Kansas City for a benefit.
Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff was
scheduled to appear, but his wife
Mildred had "a funny feeling" and
let him sleep so late that he missed
all the planes from Nashville. Cline
was returning home from the bene¬
fit in the plane that took her life.
Another Opry singer, Jan How¬
ard, was a friend of Cline's. That
night another friend called to ask
how she was, explaining that for no
reason two record albums had sud¬
denly fallen off the shelf. One was
hers. The other was Patsy's.
OO
June 1990/FATE 73
In this highly controversial article, prolific author Hans Holzer
discusses the truths and fictions of channeling and past life
investigations. Do you agree or disagree?
By Hans Holzer
U ntil a few years ago chan¬
neling meant very little to
the average esoteric seeker and
nothing at all to the uncommitted
outsider. Past lives represented a
vague idea of having lived before.
It was Dr. Ian Stevenson, a
respected parapsychologist of the
medical department at the
University of Charlottesville,
who first came out with convinc¬
ing evidence that reincarnation
did exist. The subject of past lives
finally became a scientific possi¬
bility. Reincarnation could now
be discussed openly among
researchers in the field of para¬
psychology.
While the two subjects are not
closely related (one deals with
communications by some spiritu¬
al entity eager to use the human
channel, and the other with an
individual's past lifetime and
experience), they have one com¬
mon bond. Both are open to the
human frailty known as decep¬
tion, including self-delusion.
CHANNELING
I have worked in the field of
parapsychology for 30 years, and
am well familiar with a human
condition commonly called trance
mediumship, or, in technical
terms, dissociation of personality.
In this condition, an alleged exte¬
rior or foreign personality uses
74
CHANNELING AND PAST LIVES: THE REAL STORY
the physical body or "apparatus"
of a medium to speak with the
living. Depending on exact and
individual circumstances, such as
background, education of the
medium, test conditions and
supervision of the experiment,
this material will be regarded as
veridical or not.
Some researchers reject any
notion of dead people speaking
through the living, regardless of
some of the evidence pointing in
that direction. Other researchers,
including myself, interpret the
authenticity of such phenomena
strictly on the basis of results. If
the material obtained through a
trance medium is unknown or
inaccessible to the medium at the
time of the experiment, is suffi¬
ciently precise and detailed, and
is accurate in terms of later verifi¬
cation, any reasonable researcher
will accept it as prima facie evi¬
dence in the absence of any strong
evidence to the contrary.
Trance mediums are rare, per¬
haps because the work does seem
to be very strenuous in physical
terms. Anyone who has worked
for many years with "physical
mediums" (which includes trance
mediums as well as that even
rarer phenomenon, ectoplasmic
manifestations) will see that the
medium undergoes extreme stress
while working and no actress can
fake what transpires in front of
the experienced researcher.
MEDIUMS, NOT CHANNELS
Spiritualism was in its heyday
in the 19th century. Today the
study of Spiritistic phenomena is
called parapsychology, and has
more stringent controls. Spirit¬
ualism involves communication
with the dead through the
"instrument" of the trance medi¬
um, and has been studied and
documented. In England, later in
Boston, and then in New York,
the Societies for Psychical Re¬
search took these experiments
very seriously. Unfortunately lit¬
tle research of this kind is done
today under conditions eliminat¬
ing fraud and deception.
Trance mediums worked more
with private clients eager to hear
from a loved one who passed
over or with the police in provid¬
ing valuable clues to murder
cases—allegedly, from the victim
himself or herself. Sometimes
there have been good results.
Most psychical researchers
prefer working in a lab and the
tedious testing of ESP based on
the postulated need of repeatabil¬
ity of the experiment, before
accepting the phenomena as gen¬
uine. It has always been my con¬
tention that the lab and repeata¬
bility prove little, if anything,
whereas competent repeated and
careful observation of actual, nat¬
ural phenomena, if and when
they occur in life, yields real
clues and scientific data.
June 1990/FATE 75
THE BIRTH OF CHANNELING
Then along came the channel¬
ed. On the surface, they looked
and acted like trance mediums.
They closed their eyes or rolled
them dramatically before going
into their particular state. Shortly
thereafter a voice claiming to be
someone other than the channel-
er would speak to the audience
or client. Now the difference be¬
tween this process when a genuine
trance medium does it, or a chan-
neler, is of course not the tech¬
nique but what comes out of the
channeler's or medium's mouth!
With a trance medium, any
good researcher will demand
identification of the alleged com¬
municator and usually gets it
quickly, if only in halting sen¬
tences. The researcher will then
proceed to have a dialogue with
the spirit entity—using the trance
medium as a kind of telephone—
and elicit as much detailed and
personal information as he is able
to, in order to verify it later on.
This is not so with the channel-
ers. Attempts at questioning these
"entities" for personal back¬
ground or real names leads to
platitudes about the high level of
their mission or fantasy names
and circumstances that cannot be
verified. When it sounds as if they
might be capable of scientific veri¬
fication and this is attempted, it
invariably turns out that it cannot
be traced in any known records.
76 FATE/June 1990
WHY ARE THERE FAKES?
There are two causes for the
fake channeler. First, an eager
audience of followers supplies
energies feeding the channeler's
ego (and often also money).
Second, an otherwise ordinary
personality uses deeper levels of
the consciousness to act out fan¬
tasies satisfying a craving within
that personality.
Some conventional psychia¬
trists and psychologists will dis¬
miss the channeling phenom¬
enon, along with the older, more
religiously tinged "speaking in
tongues" as merely an aberration
of the mind. One can scarcely
blame them, since their medical
training has never allowed the
postulation of the spirit compo¬
nent in human life. As Prof. Otto
Sauerbruch, the famous German
surgeon stated 80 years ago, "I
cut up a body, and I don't find
the spirit, ergo, there is no spirit."
There is an enormous body of
evidence that human personality
does survive the dissolution of the
physical body, or the outer shell.
The annals of reputable research
societies are full of them. The fake
channeler, of course, couldn't care
less about scientists or scientific
evidence—belief is everything.
THE BUSINESS OF
CHANNELING
Channeling has become big
business, including in-person
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seminars where the faithful gath¬
er, and at a stiff price, are allowed
to partake of the often question¬
able pearls of wisdom dropping
from the lips of their channeler.
Audio and videotapes, books,
magazines, follow-up books,
more seminars, and question-
and-answer sessions where people
seek the counsel of the channel¬
ing entity in solving
lems are also avail¬
able.
Perhaps the most
famous of the chan- ago, as the people whose lan-
nelers is J 2.. Knight, , ...
a woman who claims guage may have contained that
to be the channel for ^ wer0 stj|| unbom ; p what
of would-be mediums have
claimed as their inspiration, if not
actual communicator. Just as
with the Cayce material, eager
groups of followers are gathering
all these readings and trying to
interpret them in such a way that
they present a new, world-shaking
approach to life.
lems are^iso avail- Ramtha (really, Ramatha) could
not have existed 35,000 years
Ramtha, whom she
has characterized as
a native of India
who "lived 35,000
years ago." Anyone
familiar with Indo-
Germanic language
roots will know that the name
Ramtha (really, Ramatha) could
not have existed 35,000 years
ago, as the people whose lan¬
guage may have contained that
term were still unbom in what
some 15,000 to 20,000 years later
became known as the Pamir
plateau, north of India.
Much of the style used by Mrs.
Knight in her Ramtha personality
reminds one of Edgar Cayce, the
granddaddy of trance communi¬
cation whom dozens upon dozens
some 15,000 to 20,000 years
later became known as the
Pamir plateau, north of India.
Nothing could be further from
the truth, however. Any fairly
intelligent person, with a smatter¬
ing of psychology and religious
orientation, could come up with
similar advice. You don't have to
be 35,000 years old to do it.
For the moment, let us assume
that there really was an entity
speaking through Ms. Knight, a
real person long deceased (as
some of the so-called guides
claim with many reputable trance
June 1990/FATE 77
mediums). Would it not be sensi¬
ble to establish that we are hear¬
ing from an "enlightened one"
(as Ramtha repeatedly calls him¬
self) who actually lived at one
time or other in a place on this
planet? Well, now, if we can't
find his name listed in a directo¬
ry, couldn't he enlighten us with
definite, specific and truly de¬
tailed knowledge of his time and
place? Then we would have a
certain feeling of authenticity
that is the next best thing to actu¬
al proof.
Assuming, for the moment,
that some very illustrious histori¬
cal figures chose to manifest
through a channeler, wouldn't it
be likely that their personality,
character, and style would some¬
how come through even if it is in
English?
VERIFIED INFORMATION
I recall one of my earliest cases
when the late medium and
researcher Eileen Garrett accom¬
panied me and the late Daily
News columnist Danton Walker
to his pre-Revolutionary War
house in the Ramapo Hills. There
Eileen slipped into deep trance
and became the vehicle for a
badly wounded, suffering soldier
of Polish origin who told us his
terrible story, haltingly and piece¬
meal, including his name and the
people he had been with. The
authenticity of this voice was
78 FATE/June 1990
incredible. The name and circum¬
stances also checked out.
More recently, the clairvoyant
and trance medium Yolana Las-
saw, who often works with police
on unsolved crimes, accompa¬
nied a detective of the New York
police and myself to the site of a
grisly murder which had not
been solved. In sudden, deep
trance, Yolana, who knew abso¬
lutely nothing of the case or
where we had taken her, spoke
with the voice of the actual vic¬
tim, pointing the finger at one of
the suspects on whom the police
needed more information!
AQUINAS AND
THE SPACE BROTHERS
On the other side of the coin, a
comely lady who makes her liv¬
ing as a competent psychic reader,
assured me on a television pro¬
gram we shared that she was the
channel for St. Thomas Aquinas!
And what did St. Thomas have to
say to us mortals? Pretty much
the same platitudes you get from
most UFO contactees about the
dear old Space Brothers who
want to save the world from
itself. Nothing about theology,
deep thoughts, or history. This St.
Thomas was strictly unreal. But,
"I channel his essence," she
intoned.
Essence? Impersonating a
Saint? Anyone with a gift of turn¬
ing a clever phrase can claim to
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be channeling some exotic long-
ago personality or "Master."
A good book about channeling
written by Jon Klimo was recent¬
ly published by Tarcher. The fore¬
word by the eminent psychical
researcher Charles T. Tart makes
no bones about the evidence (or
lack of it), but suggests that the
process of dealing with chan¬
neled material may help us to
know ourselves better. Perhaps it
does.
WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE?
Nothing in scientific research
is an absolute. Not every "ascend¬
ed master" is a figment of the
imagination, but some kind of
evidence should be required
before accepting the communica¬
tion as genuine and as something
external to the channeler or
medium. Years ago, the late Ethel
Johnson Myers, one of the finest
trance mediums we have had in
America (and who had worked
with me on dozens of hauntings),
brought through amazing evi¬
dence of a detailed nature, fell
into deep trance during one of
our many sittings. It so happened
that the respected astrologer
Charles Jayne was present.
A personality spoke through
Ethel which did not sound like
her at all. The personality greeted
the astrologer and engaged in an
hour's worth of technical conver¬
sation about the exact position
and orbits of certain planets
including the ones not yet dis¬
covered in our solar system! That
had been Mr. Jayne's specialty,
and after the session was over, he
went ahead and verified the
material given him by the com¬
municator, who had freely given
his name, Kamaraya, and the
approximate time of his life on
Earth. Even that name is correct
for the period and country of ori¬
gin, something the medium
would scarcely have known
because her training was in
music.
EDGAR CAYCE
Of course, few people will
question the amazing material
given in trance by the late Edgar
Cayce, a photographer without
any medical knowledge who pre¬
scribed valid cures and remedies
for years. In the end, the proof of
the pudding is in the eating! If
the seeker wants sugar-coated
platitudes, then a fake channeler
will do nicely indeed. If the seek¬
er is truly interested in communi¬
cating with an entity of higher
intelligence, however, the seeker
ought to be more sanguine as to
what represents the basic mini¬
mum of evidentiality in such
communications.
The alleged communicator
from the Great Beyond should
identify himself in some manner
subject to verification, if not by
June 1990/FATE 79
individual name, then by authen¬
tic knowledge of the period and
place claimed by the communica¬
tor.
Group sessions are more diffi¬
cult to manage in that respect.
The right to question the commu¬
nicating entity directly should be
demanded by those taking part
in such sessions and plunking
down money for it.
Then the nature of the material
coming through "the channel"
itself should be examined critical¬
ly. Channelers claiming only
some vague long-dead Master as
their source will have to be ques¬
tioned when they are "them¬
selves" and not channeling, and
the differences, if any, in style,
knowledge, background, deliv¬
ery of phrases between the chan-
neler and the alleged communi¬
cator examined. If the claimed
source is someone very well
known, this is even easier. Only a
very naive and little-educated
person should be taken in by
such pretenses.
It is possible that some of the
channeled pseudo-wisdom is
helpful to the individuals listen¬
ing. After all, Dianetics and EST,
though widely attacked as highly
questionable, may have helped
some people over their problems.
But, the occasional benefits of
channeling in some cases where
the material fits a pre-existing
need which the participant does
80 FATE/June 1990
not want to address in a more
conventional manner, should not
be misinterpreted as validating
the method employed here. True
deep trance is a genuine psychic
phenomenon which can be help¬
ful both as a scientific tool of
inquiry into the nature of human¬
ity, and a vital link between our
world and the next one. The large
number of casual channelers are
not a part of this link.
The human mind—conscious¬
ness working through the physi¬
cal brain while we are in the
physical body—is capable of
many things not acceptable to
old-fashioned empiric science.
Tapping deeper levels of one's
consciousness, or that of others,
and deriving useful information
from such sources is not only
possible but common. It is nei¬
ther supernatural nor in need of
being "guru-fied" in order to be
valuable and valid.
PAST LIFE REGRESSION
"Past lives" is a term which
has come into general usage late¬
ly. A few years ago, "reincarna¬
tion" was the term most common¬
ly encountered when speaking of
the possibility we may be reborn
into new bodies to gain more
experience the next time around.
In the East, the idea of rebirth
and cycle of karma are old hat,
and readily accepted as part of
religious philosophy and orienta-
CHANNELING AND PAST LIVES: THE REAL STORY
tion. In the West, the study of evi¬
dence for reincarnation owes a
great deal to Dr. Ian Stevenson of
Charlottesville and his initial
work. Twenty Cases Suggestive of
Reincarnation. Contrary to lay
opinion, these cases have oc¬
curred all over the world and not
primarily in India where people
"believe in reincarnation."
Stevenson took the search for
past lives out of the world of
metaphysics and into the realm
of scientific inquiry where evi¬
dential standards are high. De¬
tailed information of a previous
existence—including names,
dates, places and circumstances—
must be ferreted out for the case
to merit attention.
If the claimant to
a past life experi¬
ence is shown to
have had no easy
access to such in¬
formation, and if
that information
turns out to be
correct, the case
for reincarnation
seems strong.
Personally, I add
still another con¬
dition to proof of
reincarnation: the
claimant should
not have any psychic ability,
demonstrated either before or
after the reincarnation incident or
incidents. The reason is that com¬
munication by another entity
would be an alternate explan¬
ation for the material obtained, if
it can be shown that the recipient
is psychic and has had psychic
experiences before. The proof
becomes narrower, but also
stronger in cases where no alter¬
nate explanation will suffice.
A STRONG CASE
FOR REINCARNATION
In the case of Pamela Wol-
lenberg of Illinois, the young
lady, then 18, sought me out
because of recurrent dreams in
which five words were spoken to
her by an entity she "saw" in the
dream state. The words were
"Ruthven... Go wrie...Scotland
...I leapt." They made no sense to
June 1990/FATE 81
True “past lives” simply do not
get recognized in detail in half-
hour sessions with a reader. At
best, a psychic may pick up some
foreign elements about the per¬
son whom is being read psychi¬
cally. These are picked up from
the person’s own vibrations...
her, nor, for that matter, to me at
the time. Subsequently I went to
Scotland and started to investi¬
gate the matter. With consider¬
able difficulty and diligent
search, I finally found confirma¬
tion in an obscure book locally
published about events in the
Highlands. The Ruthven family,
whose "second" noble name was
Lord Gowrie, had been wiped
out by the king in retaliation of
an earlier abduction when he
was but a lad.
That was precisely in the year
1600, and Gowrie Castle was
renamed Huntingtower Castle, to
wipe out even the name of the
hated family. One of the ladies of
the Gowries had apparently been
caught in a lover's room by her
approaching mother. She ran out
and jumped from one of the two
castle towers to the other, over
the roof, and thus successfully
escaped her pursuing mother.
How could a simple, 15-year-old
upstate Illinois girl know this?
Subsequent investigation through
extended hypnotic regression
established additional, detailed
information, all of which I was
able to corroborate later.
I published it as probably the
best case for reincarnation I had
come across. Here we had an
"innocent" subject, Pamela, who
had no family background in
Scottish history, no appropriate
education, nor access to the rare
82 FATE/June 1990
book I found in Scotland that
gave me the key to the puzzle.
Nobody in his right mind would
accuse her of making up the
story, and for what gain? She was
disturbed by all this and came to
me for answers, which she did
indeed get.
True "past lives" simply do
not get recognized in detail in
half-hour sessions with a reader.
At best, a psychic may pick up
some foreign elements about the
person whom is being read psy¬
chically. These are picked up
from the person's own vibra¬
tions, for it appears that in all of
us, without exception, past life
elements remain deeply imbed¬
ded to develop the personality
through each successive incarna¬
tion.
These past elements are sel¬
dom detailed or even clear. In
some cases, sudden flashes of
memory suitable to another per¬
son than the one having them
may emerge in the deja vu experi¬
ence or in recurrent dreams. I
have found that only unfinished
or unsettled lives in the past
allow for these "bonus" memory
bits in the present lifetime, per¬
haps to make this time around a
little easier to deal with in com¬
pensation for past deprivations.
PAST LIFE MEMORIES
MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN
Based on years of active work
CHANNELING AND PAST LIVES: THE REAL STORY
in this field, it is my conviction
that genuine reincarnation (past
lives) memories make themselves
known to the person sooner or
later by themselves. They can
either be ignored, or pursued for
clarification.
Unquestionably, if one person
reincarnates, then we all do. I
have found that only a compara¬
tively few will remember those
past lives in a way that is truly
and fully convincing. Naturally,
it may make a person feel special
to believe they have spent an ear¬
lier existence in a romantic place
as Tibet or ancient Egypt—two
favorites of past life readers,
along with the Holy Land at the
time of Jesus—but evidence and
proof of such a person having
actually existed is another matter.
Just as with the channeling
craze, the proof of authenticity
lies in the specifics obtained
through past life regression. If a
past life reader who practices his
or her craft without benefit of
deep regressive hypnosis comes
up with substantial information
unknown at the time to both sub¬
ject and reader, then the evidence
speaks for itself.
This rarely happens. Even in
professionally induced hypnotic
regression, which I have prac¬
ticed for many years, the cases
yielding specifics capable of veri¬
fication under the above restric¬
tive conditions are few. But those
few cases tend toward proving
the reality of reincarnation.
PAST LIVES OR ESP?
Some psychics mistake their
ESP abilities for genuine past life
information. They may pick up
information about the client from
the client's own unconscious, or
through an ongoing spirit com¬
munication between client and a
discarnate entity, and wrongly
determine that this outside per¬
sonality is the client in a previous
lifetime. Unless careful research
is done and test conditions are
met, this kind of past life work
tends to be more imagination and
suggestion than true reality.
WAS GEORGE PATTON
THE REINCARNATION OF
JULIUS CAESAR?
When an otherwise responsi¬
ble person lays claim to be the
reincarnation of a well-known
historical figure, the proof is hard
to come by. The two cases I am
about to report have nothing to
do with eager past life practition¬
ers who tell their clients within
five minutes of meeting them
who they were in a previous life¬
time.
The late General George
Patton repeatedly claimed to
have been the reincarnation of
Julius Caesar, and based his con¬
viction in part on two elements:
his seemingly unwarranted famil-
June1990/FATE 83
iarity with the part of France that
was Caesar's Gaul during the
Roman leader's victorious cam¬
paigns there, and an "inner
voice" guiding him in his own
campaigns in World War I.
WAS ERNEST BORGNINE A
ROMAN LEGEND?
The actor Ernest Borgnine
believes he was once "Horatio at
the bridge," a legendary Roman
hero we know only from Latin
classics and, perhaps, tradition,
rather than hard, historical fact.
There is still another category
of past lives people sometimes
think they experience, even with¬
out being told so by anyone. The
return of a loved one, who pas¬
sed on years before, as a child or
relative. Mrs. Smith in Oregon
assured me her young son, age 7,
was really her first husband,
dead 15 years, come back to be
with her. She was sure of it
because of certain traits the child
possessed.
A CASE SUGGESTIVE OF
REINCARNATION?
There are true cases of reincar¬
nation, nearly all where someone
has died prematurely or tragical¬
ly, returned relatively quickly,
and is recognized by someone in
this life. One example is the case
of a young man in India, report¬
ed by Prof. J. Banerjee, who
insisted that he had a wife in a
84 FATE/June 1990
distant village. The parents of the
youngster eventually gave in and
took him to the village he indicat¬
ed. There, spontaneously, he
made for the house he claimed
had been his and picked out a
middle-aged woman in it, by
name, calling her his wife! In the
ensuing session the youngster
had accurate knowledge of a
detailed nature about his alleged
previous life in such detail that
there was no doubt about the
truth of his claims. This being
India and not America, the par¬
ents agreed that the boy could
take up residence in the house
and with the family of his "for¬
mer" wife!
SUGGESTIVE REGRESSION?
When I taped a pilot for a pro¬
posed television program in
Cleveland a few years ago, a
group practicing "suggestive
regression" under the control and
guidance of a professional esoter¬
ic group leader caught my atten¬
tion, and we proceeded to watch
a session. Each of the dozen or so
participants, all of them women,
went into a meditative state first,
presumably to tap their deeper
levels of consciousness, including
past life memories. Each in turn
then spoke up and told me who
they had been before. At least
two of the ladies were sure they
had been Egyptians. One young
Cleveland housewife particularly
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interested me. She assured me
she was Isadora Duncan, the
dancer, in a previous life, and the
Queen of Sheba, Solomon's lover.
I realized that it was their harm¬
less fantasy, and knew of at least
two other Isadora Duncans in
other cities, so I did not even
attempt a serious investigation.
What little I saw and heard made
it clear to me that these two nice
ladies did not know very well the
personalities they claimed to
have been in a previous life.
Anybody who wishes to be¬
lieve he or she lived before as
someone markedly different (and
probably more interesting) than
their present circumstances is
welcome to their dream.
I feel less charitable when I am
confronted by an increasing
number of casual practitioners
giving past life readings at a
price. None of them use profes¬
sional hypnotic regression to see
whether there is, in fact, any
memory of a possible previous
incarnation, but prefer to do their
readings intuitively and in terms
that are incapable of true verifica¬
tion in books or records of any
kind. A particularly crass case
dealt with a lady who had been
complaining of pains in her
wrists and feet. She had not been
able to get a medical explanation
that satisfied her (such as arthri¬
tis, rheumatism, or just tension)
but met a young lady who had
the right answer. Apparently,
those pains were due to crucifix¬
ion at the time of Jesus. With that
explanation, the pains seemed to
cease or at least recede from the
patient's attention.
Dr. William Yaney, the eminent
psychiatrist of Beverly Hills,
California, includes reincarnation
trauma in his treatment of pa¬
tients. With a good trance medi¬
um as his assistant, he told one
male patient that the terrible
pains in his legs were due to his
having lost his legs in another
lifetime. The patient accepted the
explanation, and learned to live
with his problem. But unless
there are specific data, such as
names, dates and places given,
the past life material, even when
it turns out to be beneficial to the
patient, is rarely more than
another psychological trick.
Past lives are sometimes
blamed for something done in
this life that would otherwise be
unacceptable socially. A publish¬
er of esoteric materials and tapes
of renown divorced his wife
when he met another young lady
he fancied immediately. They
had been together in another life¬
time, and felt they needed to
rejoin in this one!
HOW TO AVOID
THE FRAUDS
How do you avoid being
taken in by one of the fake past
June 1990/FATE 85
life readers? They may well
believe in their work and its
authenticity. There aren't that
many conscious frauds among
them, just some self-deluded
people. Sometimes they help a
client, though not in the way
they think. If you are on an hon¬
est quest for truth, certain pre¬
cautions in dealing with such
practitioners are recommended.
To begin with, never talk about
yourself or what you think you were
in a prior life. Don't answer the
reader's questions along these
lines either. If the reader tells you
of an existence in another life,
insist on details: when, where,
what name. Chances are, the
reader will do one of two things:
make them up to sound substan¬
tial or tell you, "Sorry, I don't get
those details." Either way, take
everything you are told with a
big grain of salt.
True, acceptable past life evi¬
dence is always possible. But in
all the years of my practice in
parapsychology I have found
that such material is almost never
searched out deliberately in the
hope of finding "something."
Instead, the signs suggesting
that regressive hypnosis might
have positive results must be pres¬
ent before this is undertaken, and
done by a professionally trained
person, not a housewife or
saleslady turned past life reader
by her own volition.
86 FATE/June 1990
SIGNS OF A PAST LIFE
WAITING TO BE REVEALED
These signs are possible recur¬
rent dreams, where identical
dreams keep coming back and
are clearly recalled on awaken¬
ing; extended dejd vu experiences
in a place the percipient has not
been before and which contain
particulars regarding the previ¬
ous connection; knowledge or abil¬
ity in a field not acquired conscious¬
ly in this lifetime, such as a strange
foreign language, or technical
knowledge, or memories of places
and situations one is not familiar
with in normal life, and has had no
access to through books, newspa¬
pers, television, etc.
If you observe these signposts
carefully, pursuing the quest for
evidence of past lives can be
stimulating and truly worth¬
while. We all have lived before,
but the majority do not have con¬
scious knowledge of it in this life¬
time. Those who do, or are able
to recall under regression, are
nearly always people whose pre¬
vious lives came to abrupt or vio¬
lent ends, at least as far as my
own records show.
So remember, you can have
fun in many ways, but if you are
looking for truth in the fields of
past lives and channeling, get
facts that can be checked and
documented.
OO
EDFU:
PORTAL TO
THE PAST
A modern-day woman performs a ritual in
the ancient Egyptian “Birth Temple of the Gods.”
By Marilee Bigelow
Even now the word evokes for
me the vision of the great outer
courtyard with the large pillars
that surround it. The entrance is
protected by a huge Horus Hawk
made out of granite. By his very
stature he dominates and gives
life to the sacred site. He stands
87
in readiness, contemplating the
the "Birth Temple of the Gods"
before him.
MAGNIFICENT
CONSTRUCTION
Built in late Egyptian times
(about 300 B.G) by the Ptolemies,
the composition of this structure
is remarkable. It naturally has a
strong Greek influence. As an
example of this type of architec¬
ture, the artists added lion-head¬
ed water runoffs to the construc¬
tion, even though the country has
less than a one per cent rainfall a
year. It was gratifying to finally
see this design concept after
being curious about it for so long.
There were so many rooms to
see, and as usual I wished for
more time to explore them all.
The group I was with wandered
about examining everything pos¬
sible, and savoring the presence
of being in this sanctified place.
We were told by our guide that
one of the exterior chambers was
the "Astronomy Room." At one
time it contained the beautiful
sky Goddess Nut with her elon¬
gated body stretched across the
heavens. Regretfully, this lovely
rendering has been partially
destroyed, as were numerous
other fine colorful ceilings, for
the Coptics defaced the temple
when they lived there. Camp
fires were burned inside too, and
the billowing smoke blackened
the walls and ceilings, destroying
much of the artwork.
The Coptics also went through
many other old temples hacking
and tearing down the monu¬
ments because they believed the
gods were pagan, and against
the teachings of the Scriptures.
Map of the Temple of Horus at Edfu.
88 FATE/June 1990
EDFU: PORTAL TO THE PAST
The carved surface of the outside walls.
It's unfortunate that people
still have not learned to respect
other beliefs. If they had, perhaps
we would not have lost so much
of the archaic knowledge which
made the old civilizations great.
The carved outside surface of
the walls ring with the battle
between Horus and Set. Horus
was the son of Isis and Osiris,
and fought to avenge his father
who had been wickedly slain by
his brother. As we strolled along
examining the walls, we came
across a funny looking bird hop¬
ping about on the stone floor.
From the plumage on his head
he appeared to be wearing the
crown of upper and lower Egypt.
We found that the Egyptians
respectfully referred to him as
the "Wise Bird," because he was
considered to be a friend of
Solomon's.
THE NILEOMETER
Another important sight was
the long angular Nileometer at
Edfu. This device was used to
measure the flow and height of
the Nile at various times of the
year. Lines were carved in the
stone with steps leading down to
the water. This was very impor¬
tant for it enabled the officials to
record flood levels as well as set
crop taxes further downstream.
Eventually, it was time to enter
June 1990/FATE 89
the Inner Courtyard of Edfu with
its Hypostyle Hall. We presently
understood this term better as we
approached the chamber, for the
word means "forest-like," and it
accurately describes the interior.
All of the stone columns were
artfully fashioned to resemble
stylized trees. They were placed
in long, straight rows as if they
had been planted in a well-mani¬
cured grove. We stopped to gaze
wonderingly up at these magnifi¬
cent structures, and were awe¬
struck as a large hawk flew
gracefully over our heads into
the sanctuary.
The old temple complex has
many rooms, each one dedicated
to a specific purpose. In the origi¬
nal room where the ritual boat
was kept, we saw a reconstruc¬
tion of the Solar Barge devoted to
Horus. This was used to carry the
golden statue of the God into the
inner shrine every day where it
was dressed, anointed, and given
offerings.
THE HOLY OF HOLIES
Finally we were shown the
Holy of Holies, where a shaft of
flaxen light streamed down
through the ceiling, illuminating
innumerable hieroglyphics on
the walls. The huge, granite reli¬
quary which once held the statue
of the God still gleams like silver.
The Outer Courtyard looking in the direction of the Birth Temple of the Gods.
90 FATE/June 1990
EDFU: PORTAL TO THE PAST
and the offering table stands in
front of it, ever waiting for the
next priest or priestess to conduct
their rite.
A MODERN RITUAL
IN AN ANCIENT TEMPLE
Our guide asked if I still want¬
ed to perform a rite, as I had
asked to do earlier. He advised
me that the group would relax at
the Rest House until I was fin¬
ished. What ecstasy, what a gift,
to have all of Edfu to myself!
Suddenly behind me two buses
of tourists arrived, one French
and the other German. I still
don't know where the people
disappeared to; all I know is that
once I stepped into the shrine to
begin my sacrament, I saw no
one until the services were com¬
pleted and I had returned to the
waiting area.
The ritual was dedicated to
mighty Horus, the Golden One,
the Avenger, to Horus in his form
of Ra-Harakte, the Sun God.
Pentagrams and Ankhs were
drawn, the symbols of protection
and life. As the invocations for
the quarterly directions were
called, incense (a gift from an old
herb vendor in Aswan the night
before) wafted up to the God,
and the circle was cast in the
inner sanctum. The traditional
and very familiar Lesser Banish-
The statue of Horus the Hawk.
June 1990/FATE 91
ing Ritual of the Pentagram was
performed, and an old Indian
chant praising the limitlessness
of the great solar disk was
begun—
Let us be one with the infinite
Sun, forever and ever and ever...
It was an incredible experi¬
ence. Just the resounding echo
and vibrations of my voice
against the temple walls helped
me transcend to a different level
of consciousness. I could imagine
what it was like when all the
priests and priestesses chanted
and sang with drums beating
and sistrums ringing—what a
very powerful place!
Swaying to the inner beat of
the dance, I censed this holy
place and all the adjoining rooms,
purifying with my special in¬
cense. When I finally left, my rit¬
ual concluded, I took the incense
and placed it at the feet of the
large statue of Horus in the outer
courtyard. It was still fragrantly
burning when I left. To be with
Horus is to realize how powerful
he is, and was, as the living God
of Egypt.
Upon my return to the Guest
House, I was surprised to learn
that everyone had enjoyed my
ceremony! In fact, they had heard
it quite well even though I had
attempted to be unobtrusive, to
not attract the attention of the
French and German tourists.
I realized that only a few of
the populace would have been
admitted into the Holy of Holies,
the rest would have been out in
the hypostyled hall, outer court¬
yard, or along the exterior walls
of the temple. The structure was
acoustically created to carry the
sounds of the rituals being
performed inside the
rooms, to the ears of the
Egyptian people assem¬
bled outside the building.
Experiencing Edfu and
seeing Horus' temple made
me feel like he was still
very strong and alive. I
give thanks that I was
given the gift of working magic
in this very sacred space, and
hope that others will have the
benefit of this opportunity as
well. For to serve, and do ritual
as in olden times, fills our hearts
and souls with great and abun¬
dant joy.
OO
I was surprised to learn that
everyone had enjoyed my
ceremony! In fact, they had
heard it quite well...
92 FATE/June 1990
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GHOST DOG BRIDGE
By Angela Curcuru
An old, 12-foot bridge crosses
a dry creek bed on the road link¬
ing our small community of
Shandon to the main highway.
Bruce Clyde, my best friend, and
I had crossed it dozens of times
on the way to town.
One afternoon in April 1989,
we were driving over the bridge
and saw a dog cross the road just
ahead of us. It looked like an
Afghan hound that had lost
every bit of fur, and its body was
nothing but skin and bones.
Bruce immediately stopped.
"It looks starved," I said. "Let's
take it home and feed him."
We got out of the van and
called to the dog. It wouldn't
come, no matter how we coaxed.
He kept close to the bridge, but
out of our range. Halfheartedly
we drove away, but being animal
lovers, we couldn't resist turning
by the Readers
back after about a mile.
We returned to the bridge, but
the dog was nowhere in sight.
Bruce drove back and forth along
the creek bed. We drove up the
winding paths of farmers' prop¬
erties. How could the dog have
disappeared in such a short time?
It hadn't looked strong enough to
go far.
After a lengthy search, we
returned to the bridge and sat in
the parked van. We felt sad and
unsettled. Animal abuse or ne¬
glect was a major issue for both
of us. Visibly upset, Bruce got
out, walked to the middle of the
bridge and stood against the
south side rail. Suddenly he
shouted, 'You've got to see this!"
As I came alongside, Bruce
pointed to the sandy creek bed. A
large plastic trash bag lay open,
most of its contents visible. I took
a deep breath when I saw the
skeleton of a medium-sized ani-
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mal. Its long snout and tail, along
with tall leg bones and deep
chest cavity, would have matched
the dog we'd seen.
Had there been a live dog, or
was it the ghost of those skeletal
remains we saw and called to
that afternoon?
Angela Curcuru
Months later, we still keep a
lookout for the dog whenever we
cross the bridge.— Shandon, CA
MY GLASSES
DISAPPEARED
By Sebi Breci
I wear glasses that like to
make excursions without telling
me when they are leaving and for
how long.
One time I placed them in my
vest pocket. I walked from the
house to my car—a distance of
about 75 feet. I got into my car,
sat down, and made a second
check to make sure my glasses
were still there. They were not.
The glasses had taken the oppor¬
tunity to take a short hike else¬
where.
I thought maybe I had dropped
them on the ground. I looked
everywhere without success.
Maybe I really hadn't placed
them in my vest pocket after all. I
returned to the car and ignored
the fact that I had no glasses.
Suddenly, I felt something in the
area of my vest pocket. I quickly
reached up and touched the
pocket. The glasses were back.
I once saw a stage hypnotist
who told one entranced woman
that her husband, who sat next to
her on the stage, had left. He told
her that when she was taken out
of her trance she would look for
him on stage and would not find
him. Her husband never left the
stage, and even though she looked
right at him several times she did
not see him.
Do we "tune" out the items we
"lose" or "misplace," such as the
woman under hypnosis? I cer¬
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and would hardly "tune" them
out—they were in great need at
all times.
Did something, somehow,
manage to affect the activity of
my glasses and temporarily move
June 1990/FATE 95
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them into a blind spot in my
mind's eye?
Perhaps guardian angels,
whom we accept as being invisi¬
ble, evoke some special power
that comes with their position
and simply zap glasses out of a
vest pocket, cause car keys to dis¬
appear, etc. Maybe the entity
zaps them into the invisible
realm and views, studies, han¬
dles, plays or does something
with them until tired, then
replaces them from where "it"
got them.
Sound far-fetched? Then you
try explaining it the next time
you look for your glasses where
you last put them—and not find
them there .—Council Bluffs, IA
A PRENATAL
ADVENTURE
By Betty Lee Spencer
In 1952, Dianetics by L. Ron
Hubbard, was quite impressive
with its adventures into the sub¬
conscious. My dad, Lee Spencer,
and I took turns using the pro¬
cess of auto-hypnosis.
One night Dad was "monitor¬
ing" me. At the end of the session
we talked about it for a few min¬
utes, after which he asked if I
were sure I was back in present
time. I assured him that I was, so
he retired to his room.
Instead of getting off the
couch, I lay there for a moment
and fell into a deep trance. All
98 FATE/June 1990
was dark. I was not an actor in a
normal scene, but I was hearing
people talking. As I listened to
their conversation, there was a
terrible explosion, the force of
which was so powerful that it
brought me to full consciousness.
I ran to the window expecting to
see a very serious car accident at
the least, or the results of a gas
explosion. There was nothing!
No sign of any activity whatsoev¬
er.
What was not normal was my
rapid heartbeat and the way I
felt. I was sure that my racing
heart would give out at any
moment, and that Dad would
find me dead in the morning. I
sat down at my desk to write him
an explanation as to why I died.
Betty Lee Spencer
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giving him a word-for-word
account of the conversation I had
heard, finishing with the account
of the explosion that had rocked
me back to consciousness.
It was then, and only then,
that I realized that my heart had
returned to normal and that I
would live after all.
I went to his room with my
letter, woke him, and asked him
to read it.
He said, "Kid, do you have
any idea what this is?"
I said, "No, I don't."
He replied, "This conversation
took place one day in my car in
1918 when I was taking Mrs.
Brown and your mother for a
ride. As we passed the Solvey
Process Company in Syracuse,
New York, it blew up. Your
mother was three months' preg¬
nant with you!"
I was bom February 4,1919. —
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with angry, red, aggravated acne,
she went into action.
"Bring me an egg. A brown
egg," said said, "and a glass of
ice water."
"Be careful with the egg," my
daughter warned, "for it is my
breakfast."
Our psychologist friend asked
us to stand in a circle around
Argentina with our palms out
toward my daughter.
She said, "We will take a deep
breath. Hold it. Let it out. Think
good thoughts. Take another
deep breath. Hold it. Let it out.
Once more."
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She took the egg, passed it in
front of the fiery infection, and
slowly outlined my daughter's
figure as she solemnly said, "The
fire, the fever is going into the
yolk of the egg. The heat is going
into the white of the egg."
As we watched, she broke the
100 FATE/June 1990
egg into the glass of water. To our
amazement, the surface of the
yolk broke out in a rash of acne¬
like blisters. The white of the egg
turned from clear albumen to a
thick, white, gummy substance.
She raised the hair from Argen¬
tina's forehead and looked at the
skin. The redness had paled to a
soft pink and the bumps were
clear.
She smiled with satisfaction.
"This is not a miracle cure," she
told us. "We did it by directing
energy to the site of trouble."
She turned to my daughter.
"Do you want this egg?"
My girl shook her head,
"Thanks, but no thanks.— Carson,
CA
CHANGE FOR COFFEE
By Patricia Cheney
On a Saturday evening early
in December of 1980, I looked
into my coin purse to discover
that it only contained 14 cents—a
dime and four pennies. I had for¬
gotten to go to the bank the day
before and cash a check. I didn't
have enough money to walk
downtown the next morning and
have an early cup of coffee in a
local restaurant as was my habit.
I asked my teen-aged son, Rex,
for a small loan. He graciously
handed me a thin dime and said
that this was all he had.
Because I usually walked the
few blocks into the town of
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Portola, California, I frequently
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knew that I would be able to find
enough money to buy a cup of
coffee. I went to sleep confident
that this money problem would
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the streets and curbs were a mix
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snow. I continued walking and
passed the restaurant I usually
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two more blocks and passed
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was something on the small shelf
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local thrift store, at the city
dump, on the street or given to
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clothing, food for my pets, and
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THANKS, MOM. HOW'S DAD?
By Al Horvath
Home from work in Gardena,
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couch to relax and watch televi¬
sion. It was 1970 and he had
recently bought us a new color
set that we all loved to watch.
Moments later, Albert Horvath
Sr., my dad, was dead from a
massive heart attack.
At the moment of his death,
the new television quit working.
Despite our efforts to revive it,
the screen remained a dark blank.
We promised Mom, Lillian Hor¬
vath, that we would call a repair¬
man after the funeral.
Returning home with family
and friends after the service, a
cousin walked straight to the TV
and turned it on. The TV's resur¬
rection amazed everyone, espe¬
cially my mom. "Just like him,"
Mom said, "to make sure we
mourned him properly. He didn't
want us watching TV before the
funeral."
Many times we spoke of Dad's
special way of communicating. It
had a profound effect upon my
mom, and later she adopted a
spiritualist philosophy of life.
Al Horvath
Sixteen years later, in 1986,
stricken with cancer. Mom came
to spend her last days at my
home in Plainfield, Indiana.
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"Come visit me after you go,"
I told her. "Haunt my house for
me," I teased her. I could tell by
her look that she thought I was
being foolish. Maybe she thought
there would be more important
endeavors in the great beyond.
A year after her death my wife
and I were awakened by a loud
rapping. Confused by the sound,
we lay back down to sleep.
Again—rap, rap, rap. It was
very loud, but we couldn't tell
from where it was coming.
I got up to investigate, but
found nothing. Shortly after
returning to bed there was anoth¬
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went to investigate.
In the kitchen more raps await¬
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followed the sound outside to the
crawl space under the house. A
quick look revealed wiring that
was smoldering and the wood of
the flooring was smoking.
Thanks to the raps, we discov¬
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damage was done. I also now
knew its source. Mom came back
with a life-saving message.
"Thanks, Mom. How's Dad?"—
Plainfield, IN
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in 1825, and an early convert,
Martin Harris, in 1830, surfaced in
1985, the Church of Jesus Christ of
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outside.world. Although informa¬
tion about Smith's involvement in
occult practices was common
knowledge—or least commonly
available to church historians—
few people beyond this circle
were aware of it. The letters, how¬
ever, proved to be foigeries.
The New England of Joseph
Smith's youth was filled religious
turmoil as the proliferation of
protestant groups competed for
souls. Not only did they compete
against each other, but also
ingrained beliefs in the powers of
the natural world—all the occult
sciences. Almanac sales did a brisk
business and people employed
divining rods and "shewstones."
Beginning at the age of about 13,
Smith used both in searches for
buried treasure and in attempts to
foretell the future. This continued
for at least seven years.
In addition to locating the
gold plates containing the Book
of Mormon using a divining rod.
Smith and his family had three
magical parchments or "lamens,"
inscribed with occult and astro¬
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their lives, such as the dates of
the plural marriages of Joseph
Smith Jr. and Joseph Sr., and even
the birth months of their chil¬
dren, also had apparent signifi¬
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other early Mormon leaders
established the tenets of their
faith and worship practices.
The church hierarchy came to
downplay its former occult con¬
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magic practices.
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continued from page 106
vakia these days. The people
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help the following person...
It is unbelievable in world his¬
tory: the Communistic Party lost
its leading post within only 10
days! We fought a war of words
without any shooting. Not one
dead man or woman! Handbills,
leaflets and posters were hastily
scribbled by brush or pen. Com¬
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voice to a nation's defiance.
I have been studying astrology
for more than 40 years. In the
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FATE, March 1990) quoted from a
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